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Stage 1: Restart • • • • • •
Initiate setting up factory-like pre-assembly work areas Look at what works can be transferred off site Risks related to cash flow and materials availability issues at suppliers The need for workers on site Duration of works on site Waste needed to be removed from site
Stage 2: Reset •
Establish a strategy to exploit systematised, standard products, and pre-assembled elements in future projects. Optimise off site content.
Maximise: • Exploiting assembly type operations with personnel trained in that specific assembly process to minimise the number of people working in the same area • Factory based assembly and quality assurance • In-factory commissioning of building management system and associated equipment.
Stage 3: Reinvent •
Understanding how systems engineering methodologies can be applied to the specification and delivery of construction projects
Stage 1: Restart •
Possible use of offsite manufacture and assembly centres
Et parisciis aut faccusa
Figure 7.1: Use of Preassembly Areas
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