MMC terms
5S
active building
Advanced Building Material (ABM)
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
alternative method tender
Arm’s-Length Body (ALB)
Association for Project Management (APM)
Augmented Reality (AR)
automation, onsite
Bill of Materials (BOM)
Building Energy Modelling (BEM)
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Building Research Establishment Environment Assessment Methodology (BREEAM)
Buildoffsite
carbon nano-tube (CNT)
carbon zero
Common Data Environment (CDE)
configuration
configuration management
Construction Industry Training Board (CITB)
Construction Leadership Council (CLC)
delivery phase
design development stage
Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
Design for Manufacture (DfM)
Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)
deskill
Factory Engineered Concrete (FEC)
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
future skills needs
Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)
hybrid
industry (construction)
information management framework
Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA)
Internet of Things (IoT)
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Life Cycle Cost (LCC)
Manufactured Nanotechnology Product (MNP)
Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL)
Micro/Nano Electromechanical System
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) definition framework
non-volumetric unit
Offsite Manufacturing (OSM)
onsite
panellised
Permission in Principle (PiP)
Porter’s Value Chain
Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV)
Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
productivity gap
Quality Functional Deployment (QFD)
Quality Management System (QMS)
Quality, Cost, and Delivery (QCD)
Research and Development (R&D)
reskill
RIBA Plan of Work [17]
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
sequential tendering
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME)
Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
through-life costing
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
transforming construction challenge programme
Transforming Infrastructure Performance (TIP) [65]
Transport Infrastructure Efficiency Strategy (TIES) [66]
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
upskill
Virtual Reality (VR)
wearable technology (or devices)
Whole-Life Cost (WLC)
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