which was launched in 2017 to accelerate the uptake of digitalisation and more productive modern methods of construction.
Learn more about our.Design to Value.Have you ever spent much time thinking about why things are the size they are?.
I have often come back to contemplating this topic when reading about mitochondria.We have mitochondria in all our cells, they convert carbohydrate molecules into packets of energy (ATP) that can then be used directly by our cells to function.ATP powers muscle cell contraction, protein building, cell replication.. To go down a rabbit hole briefly, these fascinating organelles are the vestiges of ancient bacteria which somehow became intertwined with the larger eucaryote cells of animals and plants.
They have their own DNA which is only passed on through the female line.The way they produce ATP is by becoming self-charging batteries of 180mV which drives all the processes in a cell.. To get back to scale; do we have one of these in each cell?
The answer is no, we have a few 100,000 per cell.
Over millions of years of evolution although much has changed, they have not changed in size, because the size and structure represent a sweet spot for their function.every contract, every scope, every specification) is currently set up for accurate tolerances.
This needs to change, she says, or what we’re aiming to do will be nearly impossible.. “You can't have the same behaviour and think you're going to have some dramatically different result (that's going to be great) all of a sudden.’.The reality is that making these changes offers a solution to many of the problems we’re facing as an industry at the moment, including poor productivity, low value, excessive amounts of waste, and carbon emissions.
We need to find a way to facilitate this shift to industrialised construction because almost nothing is coming out in the way we intended it, Marks says, particularly in terms of cost, certainty, and schedule..Still, switching the whole ecosystem to support industrialised construction represents a very difficult challenge..
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