MMC terms
5S
acceptance criteria
acquisition cost
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
Building Energy Modelling (BEM)
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
building module
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
end-of-life cost
Factory Engineered Concrete (FEC)
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
future skills needs
gemini principles
Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)
hard skills
hybrid
industry (construction)
industry 4.0
information management framework
Information Technology (IT)
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)
market
Micro/Nano Electromechanical System
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) definition framework
nanotechnology
non-volumetric unit
Offsite Manufacturing (OSM)
onsite
on-site
operational phase
panellised
Permission in Principle (PiP)
platform
pod
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)
scope
sector (construction)
sequential tendering
Six Sigma
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME)
soft skills
Statistical Process Control (SPC)
Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
three-dimensional (3D)
Through-Life Cost (TLC)
through-life costing
transforming construction challenge programme
Transforming Infrastructure Performance (TIP) [65]
Transport Infrastructure Efficiency Strategy (TIES) [66]
two-dimensional (2D)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
upskill
Virtual Reality (VR)
volumetric
wearable technology (or devices)
Whole-Life Cost (WLC)
whole-life performance
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