You won’t learn anything about the next building you build, as it will also be a prototype.

Jaimie Johnston recognises that people are becoming bogged down in the granularity of the words, even with terms like ‘on-site’ and ‘off-site.’.The important thing is to fully understand the outcomes clients are aiming to achieve, he says, be it speed, greatest flexibility, or lowest costs.

That’s why Bryden Wood likes the term.Design to Value.The goal here is to design things with lean construction principles: using the least amount of material, handled the fewest number of times, delivered quickly, with the right information, and without waste.. Aiming to realise these lean construction goals, regardless of whether that occurs on-site or off-site, is the real objective.

Once this level of understanding is in place, informed decisions can be made about the most effective ways to go about making things happen.. Johnston says this includes decisions about the level of granularity of component standardisation which is required, as well as whether work is best done on-site or off-site.It’s really about individual value drivers and these vary from client to client depending on their needs.. “Construction too easily gets into the solutions mode,” he says, “and starts thinking of the solution before answering the question.”.

Amy Marks says she worked with a technology client earlier in her career, who wasn’t at all interested in having his project finish sooner.

However, certainty surrounding the duration of the schedule was very important to him..‘For safety reasons,’ he says, ‘I feel very reassured that it’s very safe in terms of evacuation and day-to-day movement.

It’s very good.’.Head of Nursing Paul Highton expresses this same sentiment when discussing the various options he has if needing to move quickly to another area of the facility.

‘It’s very easy, really,’ he says.‘There’s a central stairway, which you can sort of run up, or walk with intent… The lifts are very quick.