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Construction Innovation Hub

2024-07-28T12:18:30Z

TMJones:

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= Introduction =

On 30 November 2018, Business & Industry Minister Richard Harrington MP announced £72 million Government funding for the Transforming Construction Alliance (TCA) to deliver a national [https://constructioninnovationhub.org.uk/ Core Innovation Hub] (CIH). The funding followed a nationwide competition as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

The Construction Innovation Hub existed until April 2023, drawing on the expertise of three industry organisations:

* Building Research Establishment (BRE)
* Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB)
* Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC).

It was also supported by a wide range of construction, academic and government bodies.

= Objectives =

CIH was tasked with changing the way buildings and infrastructure are designed, manufactured, integrated and connected in the built environment and – as a catalyst for change – driving collaboration. This, it was hoped would develop, commercialise and promote digital and manufacturing technologies for construction, to build smarter, greener and more efficient buildings.

= Research =

The hub’s research activities were targetted to help understand how the construction industry should change in terms of skills, product standards, capacity and innovation. Combined with an academic programme, it was hoped this would help achieve the security-minded frameworks and rules which would underpin the future digital-built environment and grow UK exports. Working closely with the government’s Transforming Construction challenge programme, and collaborating across construction, the Hub aimed to support a better built environment for future generations..

= Emulating other industries =

Fundamental to the Hub's approach was the recognition that the way buildings are constructed is outdated – a building is typically hand-built, nearly every time to order, using bespoke designs and different supply chains. If the car industry used this model, costs would rise, quality would vary widely and there would be higher running costs and risks to safety and the environment.

= Supply chain =

According to the Hub, the UK has an acute supply-chain shortage in respect of the £650m pipeline of critical infrastructure and construction investment required to 2025.

The Hub maintained that the construction sector needed to transform the way buildings are designed, manufactured, integrated and connected within the built environment in order to create high-performing assets based on digital and advanced manufacturing.

The Hub hopes to induce the structural change that will allow such transformations to take place.

= Industry Board =

In 2019, the Transforming Construction Alliance became the Construction Innovation Hub, and a new Industry Board was created to ensure key industry decision makers and leaders help to shape its programme of work.

Keith Waller, Programme Director for the Construction Innovation Hub said:

“The Construction Innovation Hub is working with government, academia, the Construction Leadership Council and other industry leaders to develop solutions that can be used across projects and sectors. But I want our programme to go further. I want to ensure key industry decision makers and leaders help shape the Construction Innovation Hub, so it can deliver for industry as well as society at large. Our new Industry Board will help us develop the framework we need, focusing on those outputs that will make a real difference”.

= Outputs =

In terms of outputs, the Hub produced a number of key outputs not least:

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CIH-Defining-the-Need-2021.pdf Defining the Need] - a review of over £50bn social infrastructure pipeline, identifying points of commonality and opportunity to harmonise, digitise and rationalise specifications and requirements

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/The_Value_Toolkit Value Toolkit] - a suite of tools, processes and guidance designed to support better decision-making throughout the investment lifecycle of a project.

[https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Product_platform_rulebook Product Platform Rulebook] - an open access industry guide to educate, enable and empower industry to develop and deploy product platforms

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Product Platform Specification

2024-07-28T12:10:35Z

TMJones:

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CIH-product-platform-rulebook-edition-1.2.pdf The Product Platform Rulebook, Edition 1.2 March 2023], published by the Construction Innovation Hub (and authored by [[www.akerlof.co.uk|Akerlof]], Atkins and Mott Macdonald), defines the Product Platform Specification as: ‘The component, interface and production specifications for a particular product platform, developed using the Product Platform Rulebook and based on the rules set out in the Product Platform Definition.’

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* Kit of parts.
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* Product Platform Specification.
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Product Platform Development Framework

2024-07-28T12:10:10Z

TMJones:

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CIH-product-platform-rulebook-edition-1.2.pdf The Product Platform Rulebook, Edition 1.2 March 2023], published by the Construction Innovation Hub (and authored by [[www.akerlof.co.uk|Akerlof]], Atkins and Mott Macdonald), defines the Product Platform Development Framework as: ‘A common framework to support the development of product platforms. The framework sets out a series of activities across three stages (Demand, Develop, Deploy) covering the identification of market demand through the development of a product platform to its eventual deployment on multiple projects. The Product Platform Development Framework is governed by the Product Platform Rulebook.’

= Related articles on Designing Buildings =

* Kit of parts.
* Platform approach to construction.
* Platform approach to design for manufacture and assembly.
* Platform construction.
* Platform.
* Product Platform Deployment Manual.
* Product Platform Roadmap.
* Product Platform Specification.
* Product platform.

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Product platform rulebook

2024-07-26T15:49:38Z

TMJones:

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CIH-product-platform-rulebook-edition-1.2.pdf The Product Platform Rulebook (Edition 1.2 March 2023]), is an open-access guide to support industry – clients, consultants, contractors, manufacturers and product suppliers – in building capability and capacity to develop and deploy product platforms to meet demand.

Published by the Construction Innovation Hub (and authored by [https://akerlof.co.uk/ Akerlof], Atkins and Mott Macdonald), the rulebook aims to:

* Educate: to provide an introduction to the principles of product platforms
* Empower: to provide a framework that guides, supports and empowers those seeking to develop and/or deploy product platforms
* Enable: to establish rules, principles and a framework that support consistent development and deployment of product platforms, stimulating the potential for cross-platform harmonisation and cultivating market capacity to respond to an aggregated pipeline.

The rulebook provides an outline of the principles of product platforms, what they are and the benefits they can bring in the construction sector, a set of rules and principles that should be followed in order to develop a valid product platform, guidance for those wanting to develop a product platform, recommendations for government and industry and best pratice examples of how product platforms have been applied in practice.

The release of the Product Platform Rulebook was also supported by additional materials, not least [https://constructioninnovationhub.org.uk/media/rzwdinep/the-value-of-platforms-final-upload-april-2023.pdf The Value of Platforms] (a value assessment of platforms), [https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-Platforms-in-the-Wild-Akerlof.pdf Platfoms in the Wild] (details of how platforms are applied by Tier 1 contractors) and [https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Akerlof-Construction-Platforms-in-Healthcare-2022.pdf Platforms in Healthcare] (a review of platforms in the Healthcare sector)

See also: Platform approach to construction.

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* Product Platform Specification.

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Kit of parts

2024-07-26T15:47:25Z

TMJones:

[https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/resources-landing-page/dfma-overlay-to-the-riba-plan-of-work DfMA Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work, Mainstreaming Design for Manufacture and Assembly in Construction, 2nd Edition], published by the RIBA in 2021, defines a kit of parts as: ‘A system of separate proprietary parts manufactured off site, conceived to be efficiently assembled on site. The rationale for keeping the parts separate is to allow more efficient, safer handling and transportation, and to allow flexibility (within certain constraints) in their final configuration.’

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CIH-product-platform-rulebook-edition-1.2.pdf The Product Platform Rulebook, Edition 1.2 March 2023], published by the Construction Innovation Hub defines a kit of parts as: ‘A collection of repeatable, standardised building components that are pre-engineered and designed to create a variety of assemblies which define part or all of a finished building.’'

In 2023, MHCLG commissioned [https://akerlof.co.uk/insights/dluhc-kit-of-parts/ Akerlof] to research and develop a digital 'kit of parts' for low-rise housing.

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Kit of parts

2024-07-26T15:47:13Z

TMJones:

[https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/resources-landing-page/dfma-overlay-to-the-riba-plan-of-work DfMA Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work, Mainstreaming Design for Manufacture and Assembly in Construction, 2nd Edition], published by the RIBA in 2021, defines a kit of parts as: ‘A system of separate proprietary parts manufactured off site, conceived to be efficiently assembled on site. The rationale for keeping the parts separate is to allow more efficient, safer handling and transportation, and to allow flexibility (within certain constraints) in their final configuration.’

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CIH-product-platform-rulebook-edition-1.2.pdf The Product Platform Rulebook, Edition 1.2 March 2023], published by the Construction Innovation Hub defines a kit of parts as: ‘A collection of repeatable, standardised building components that are pre-engineered and designed to create a variety of assemblies which define part or all of a finished building.’'

In 2022, MHCLG commissioned [https://akerlof.co.uk/insights/dluhc-kit-of-parts/ Akerlof] to research and develop a digital 'kit of parts' for low-rise housing.

= Related articles on Designing Buildings =

* BIM.
* Design for manufacture and assembly.
* DfMA overlay to RIBA plan of work.
* DfMA.
* Flat pack.
* Kit house.
* Modern methods of construction.
* Offsite manufacturing.
* RIBA plan of work v project plans v OGC gateways.
* RIBA plan of work.
* RIBA.

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Product Platform Development Framework

2024-07-26T15:44:59Z

TMJones:

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CIH-product-platform-rulebook-edition-1.2.pdf The Product Platform Rulebook, Edition 1.2 March 2023], published by the Construction Innovation Hub (and authored by Akerlof, Atkins and Mott Macdonald), defines the Product Platform Development Framework as: ‘A common framework to support the development of product platforms. The framework sets out a series of activities across three stages (Demand, Develop, Deploy) covering the identification of market demand through the development of a product platform to its eventual deployment on multiple projects. The Product Platform Development Framework is governed by the Product Platform Rulebook.’

= Related articles on Designing Buildings =

* Kit of parts.
* Platform approach to construction.
* Platform approach to design for manufacture and assembly.
* Platform construction.
* Platform.
* Product Platform Deployment Manual.
* Product Platform Roadmap.
* Product Platform Specification.
* Product platform.

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Product Platform Specification

2024-07-26T15:41:22Z

TMJones:

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CIH-product-platform-rulebook-edition-1.2.pdf The Product Platform Rulebook, Edition 1.2 March 2023], published by the Construction Innovation Hub (and authored by Akerlof, Atkins and Mott Macdonald), defines the Product Platform Specification as: ‘The component, interface and production specifications for a particular product platform, developed using the Product Platform Rulebook and based on the rules set out in the Product Platform Definition.’

= Related articles on Designing Buildings =

* Kit of parts.
* Platform approach to construction.
* Platform approach to design for manufacture and assembly.
* Platform construction.
* Platform.
* Product platform.
* Product Platform Deployment Manual.
* Product Platform Development Framework.
* Product Platform Roadmap.
* Product Platform Specification.
* Product platform.

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Kit of parts

2024-07-26T15:39:54Z

TMJones:

[https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/resources-landing-page/dfma-overlay-to-the-riba-plan-of-work DfMA Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work, Mainstreaming Design for Manufacture and Assembly in Construction, 2nd Edition], published by the RIBA in 2021, defines a kit of parts as: ‘A system of separate proprietary parts manufactured off site, conceived to be efficiently assembled on site. The rationale for keeping the parts separate is to allow more efficient, safer handling and transportation, and to allow flexibility (within certain constraints) in their final configuration.’

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CIH-product-platform-rulebook-edition-1.2.pdf The Product Platform Rulebook, Edition 1.2 March 2023], published by the Construction Innovation Hub defines a kit of parts as: ‘A collection of repeatable, standardised building components that are pre-engineered and designed to create a variety of assemblies which define part or all of a finished building.’'

In 2022, MHCLG commissioned Akerlof to research and develop a 'kit of parts' for low-rise housing.

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* BIM.
* Design for manufacture and assembly.
* DfMA overlay to RIBA plan of work.
* DfMA.
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* Kit house.
* Modern methods of construction.
* Offsite manufacturing.
* RIBA plan of work v project plans v OGC gateways.
* RIBA plan of work.
* RIBA.

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Building assembly

2024-07-26T15:38:37Z

TMJones:

According to PAS 1192-2:2013: Specification for information management for the capital/delivery phase of construction projects using building information modelling (BIM), an assembly is a:

'Group of components or types to enable the reuse of standardised design or specification elements improving productivity of design and delivery as well as providing a location to hold specifications and lessons learnt in a simple and useable way. They may hold benchmark data for cost and carbon impacts.

The contents of assemblies may themselves have attributes and classifications. These properties may include key data which is attached (to the object) for use once it is placed into a model and may include cost, CO2, programme, maintenance and other key information.'

Sub-assemblies are: 'Major building elements that are manufactured offsite, potentially using other offsite manufactured components. Examples include balustrading assemblies, facade cassette panels and preassembled M&E elements.' Ref [https://www.architecture.com/-/media/gathercontent/riba-plan-of-work/additional-documents/bimoverlaytotheribaoutlineplanofworkpdf.pdf BIM Overlay to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work], published by the RIBA in 2012.

[https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/resources-landing-page/dfma-overlay-to-the-riba-plan-of-work DfMA Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work, Mainstreaming Design for Manufacture and Assembly in Construction, 2nd Edition], published by the RIBA in 2021, defines sub-assemblies as: ‘Major building elements that are manufactured off site, potentially comprising a combination of components. Examples include walls, floors, roofs, balconies, balustrading assemblies, façade cassette panels and pre-assembled M&E elements.’

[https://akerlof.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CIH-product-platform-rulebook-edition-1.2.pdf The Product Platform Rulebook, Edition 1.2 March 2023], published by the Construction Innovation Hub, defines an assembly as: ‘A combination of components.’

NB: See also: Assembly area and Assembly and recreation definition.

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