Sumner Street secures ‘Demonstrator Project’ funding from UKRI – a positive example of government-led collaboration-

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‘Can we do this?’ must become, ‘should we do this?’.

A factory in Japan was due for closure and demolition as it no longer met the requirements for withstanding an earthquake after rules were changed following the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.Studies to look at remediating the buildings had suggested the need to cease operations for 18 months, meaning the solution was unviable.

Sumner Street secures ‘Demonstrator Project’ funding from UKRI – a positive example of government-led collaboration

Although the client was looking for the most efficient replacement factory, the Design to Value approach – combined with clever thinking and seismic modelling – came up with a solution to support the existing building.This eradicated the need to replace or shut down the operation, saving the client more than £120 million – not to mention tonnes of embedded and emitted carbon in the construction of a new asset..If building is the only option, then the hard questions need to continue:.

Sumner Street secures ‘Demonstrator Project’ funding from UKRI – a positive example of government-led collaboration

What would a zero-carbon building look like across its whole lifespan?There is a pressing need to reduce carbon emissions in the short term, so although having an efficient building over a 50-year period is a good outcome, it is insufficient if it causes a huge emission of CO2 in the next few years.

Sumner Street secures ‘Demonstrator Project’ funding from UKRI – a positive example of government-led collaboration

There are technologies being developed that extract CO2 from the atmosphere to incorporate into building materials.

These ideas offer the opportunity to make the construction of an asset carbon negative.. How can we build and not just protect diversity (e.g.In addition to conventional methods, alternatives have been developed that deploy prefabrication, pre-assembly, design standardisation and/or automation to some degree and these are collectively referred to as Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)..

Exploring the MMC toolkit: from offsite construction to PPVC and beyond.MMC is the collective term for the innovative construction methods that can be deployed by the DfMA designer.

MMC can be considered as the DfMA designer’s “toolkit”.The DfMA designer finds the most suitable innovations in the MMC toolkit (or develops new innovations) to meet a project’s unique challenges..

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