‘No two projects have been the same and I have enjoyed working on them all.’.

From the aging demographic to the impact of COVID-19, the challenges facing the construction industry have never been starker.This reality, coupled with a climate crisis the construction industry is significantly contributing to (producing 39% of global carbon emissions), means that we are faced with an urgent need for action.

The good news is that all of the enablers needed to take the industry forward are already in place.The construction Platform movement is gaining momentum and we hope it could be our current reality within five to ten years.It’s entirely achievable, so long as the industry decides that the time has come to take action, and that this is the direction we want to move.

If it’s not, then why not?.To listen to Jaimie Johnston talking about the future of Platform Construction and DfMA in more detail, listen to Episode 2 of our Built Environment Matters podcast.

Or, you can download and read our e-book on Platforms.Earlier this year, the government announced that they would spend £2.7 billion on building hospitals.

That’s a large amount of money, and very welcome.The DfMA designer finds the most suitable innovations in the MMC toolkit (or develops new innovations) to meet a project’s unique challenges..

There are many construction innovations that can be considered MMC.The UK’s Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) recently established a Joint Industry Working Group on MMC which proposed the following categorisation: 3D primary structural systems, 2D primary structural systems, Non-system components, Additive Manufacturing, Assemblies and sub-assemblies, Material and Product Innovations and Site Process Innovations.

This categorisation is quite diverse and includes a range of pre-manufactured and pre-assembled systems but also non-system components, site-based material innovations and process innovations..There is no fixed list of MMC methods in each category.