PRiSM open source app demo - Precision Manufactured Homes for London

The concept of a platform approach to DfMA (P-DfMA) has been adopted by the UK Government, particularly the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), who have said they will mandate construction platforms by 2023 for all social infrastructure..

Operational engineering and manufacturing drive the majority of investment plans and proposals.Their expertise, understanding and comfort lie with the plants and systems they work with every day.

This creates a natural inertia away from any transformation of technology or approach.. Capital governance processes skew decision-making and inhibit the new..Significant investment approvals come to senior executives who rightly ask many difficult questions, while they may mistakenly expect and demand certainty.The demands and difficulties in getting through these governance processes drive both a false optimism in justifying product demand and drive the scale of the investment; “this is our one chance, so go with what we know and go big!”.

The resources needed for change (above the day-to-day).Changing platform technology could place additional demands on operations above and beyond those of securing ongoing supply and product transfer..

The compulsion to change seems not yet powerful enough to overcome these barriers or to put it another way, has not yet reached the activation energy threshold.

That said, some companies are getting closer..I have consumed, benefitted from cheap energy, travelled on business and for pleasure to far flung places.

My lifetime carbon footprint will be in the top 25% of the world population despite my efforts now to minimise it.I have three children who are very aware and are taking decisions which will mean their impact on the world will be positive.. What should I do in this contrite state?

Should I wear a hair shirt, carry around my guilt, or go and live like a hermit?.The reality is that no matter how much I do personally, on my own, it will have a completely negligible effect on the problem.