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In the United Kingdom, there’s great craftsmanship, as well as in Ireland, where they’ve adopted manufacturing techniques.In America, there’s volume because of geography.

In Australia, they’re getting pressure from Asia.They’ve lost the car industry.They want to create an industry.

They’re bringing in young people and technology, Marks says..However, regardless of the country, there are a few elements needed to make the shift to industrialised construction work: purpose, government support, academia, the involvement of young people, training, and complementary parts of the ecosystem - including industry and finance.. Education is a hugely important factor and Amy Marks has now written an eight-week course curriculum for Columbia University.

It covers not only prefab but other industrialised construction topics such as how to look at MEP assemblies, manufacturing, automation, robotics, machine learning, AI, and construction platforms.

It’s unlike any other course in the world, and that’s the problem, Marks says.This would revolutionise the speed with which up front design could be achieved, overcoming the challenge to investors presented by the need for more upfront design..

Primary School Configurator., developed by Bryden Wood, with Innovate UK funding is an open source, user-friendly web-based app, which configures a primary school building on a specific site in line with DfE requirements.

This reduces a process that normally takes weeks, to a matter of minutes.A similar configurator, called.