Even if each stakeholder or specialist, does their utmost to deliver as planned, the interfaces where specialisms meet will remain a tolerance risk.. As long as changes can be made on site, assets will always be vulnerable to unintended consequences..

This uniformity of build means there is suddenly something meaningful to do with operational data.Learning how the components perform, or how the facade systems are working, can help refine the components and make a better asset next time.

This standardisation at component level creates the ability to put a feedback loop in place.Furthermore, it opens up an opportunity for machine learning and artificial intelligence to come into construction, as they require vast data sets to operate.If we want to get into AI in construction, and even digital twins, we have to put the building blocks in place now.

Construction Platform design could accelerate the capture of data needed to make this a reality.. End of life: reuse and recycle built assets.When a built asset comes to the end of its life, a construction Platforms approach is appealing because it gives us sustainable options for redeployment and reuse.

Automatically knowing the provenance of a built asset allows us to get into a circular economy.

Equally, we could also take components from one asset, and then use them for a different asset type in another part of the world.It's just everything works against it…”.

One challenge relates to the complexity of the construction ecosystem itself, which is made up of multiple different industries, all with different value propositions.These don’t match up, Marks says, commenting that this is why she went to work at.

Ultimately, she realised that she just couldn’t make the level of impact she wanted to by working from the bottom up, within just one small portion of the ecosystem.. Marks says the level of change needed to facilitate a true industry shift to industrialised construction requires a top-down level of influence.She’s currently writing a book about the topic – ‘The Innovator’s Deception.’ She says she’s starting to see multi-billion dollar companies pushing back.