The COVID-19 pandemic took hold just as academics and researchers received funding.
Although our technical services and products are becoming increasingly exportable and marketable, we need a more cohesive and collaborative approach regarding how we bring that UK construction value proposition to market.It may be that BIM unlocks value, or value unlocks finance, or finance unlocks BIM, but there is a real chance to develop a ‘UK brand’ construction approach that we can sell internationally.
We don’t want to compete on how cheaply we can provide labor and concrete.We want to compete on how much value we can add, and how we can help support the delivery of infrastructure and development plans of economies throughout the world..The Construction Leadership Council and Developing a UK Value Proposition.
There can be no doubt that the UK has a crucial role to play in shaping the future of the construction industry.The Construction Leadership Council, working very closely with the Department for International Trade, has started to address this.
They’re considering what it means for consultants like Bryden Wood, Mott MacDonald, Arup and others, as well as the big contractors and construction managers.
We need to evaluate how we can get behind a UK value proposition and create something that allows us to export all of our wonderful technologies and services internationally.The project will validate and showcase the benefits that can be delivered using P-DfMA techniques, Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and digital technologies on a large-scale new build commercial office development.
It is designed to a ‘zero carbon in use’ strategy, and is already achieving gains:.efficiency: a predicted 9.5% reduction in capital cost, 13% reduction in programme, 40% reduction in steel used and 50% reduction in site operatives for superstructure and facade.
sustainability: a forecast 19.4% reduction in embodied carbon per square metre, a 36.4% carbon reduction in the substructure and 20.2% in the superstructure and façade..The Platform approach has been adopted by the Government and is the focus of the Construction Innovation Hub..