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Once the optimal design for a site is decided upon, the digital model, already aware of the required mechanical electrical components, wall types, doors, structural components and so on, is able to generate a LOD 400 bill of materials quality BIM model very quickly.. It’s worth stressing that using modern methods of construction in this way doesn’t mean taking jobs away from people.

Both markets have geographical constraints.Singapore is very land-constrained and has limited ‘internal’ modular manufacturing capacity, but imports have good access to the Malaysian and Indonesian markets.

On the other hand, Hong Kong has potential access to Chinese manufacturers.As such, forms of modular will no doubt be part of the future solution..In the US, there have been several conferences about ‘industrialized construction,’ and players like Katerra and Factory_OS are developing their own vertically integrated offers..

Overall, there is a global recognition that a more manufacturing-like approach is needed.‘Volumetric’ seems to be the first and most obvious starting point, but we believe there is a need for a wider and more sophisticated ecosystem of DfMA.

There may be parallels with what happened with BIM.

The UK was the first to mandate Building Information Modelling and our standards became quite widely adopted, or were at least used as a starting point, globally.Transforming Performance and Productivity in the Construction Industry.

, from the Maufacturing Technology Centre in 2019. the UK Government's.The Construction Playbook: Government guidance on sourcing and contracting public works projects and programmes.

, in 2020. the IPA's.Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030. , published in 2021.