Urko Añorga Recarte

Built assets in use: unlocking operational data through construction platform design.

These days she finds the meaning too ambiguous.In 2005, she bought a 76-year-old company that built steel and concrete volumetric modular, as well as some assemblies.

They worked on a huge variety of projects: telecommunications, data centres, schools, hospitals, generator enclosures, and embassies for the government.Marks notes that people tend to think standardised design is something new, but it isn’t.It’s just an idea that’s coming back, growing in scale, and becoming more mainstream.. Another issue we have in the construction industry, she explains, is that when we talk about this type of industrialised construction work, we tend to focus on the projects we consider to be the sexy, quirky ones.

We talk about the asterisk, which will never be done again..In actuality, her volumetric modular company had built hundreds of schools for New York City.

It was a case of lots of buildings and big applications.

She says these are the industrialised construction projects we need to be talking about - the ones that everyone needs to do.. Kit-of-parts architecture and the benefits of standardisation.ale] until I got into the workplace.

In terms of going into engineering, I came from an all-girls school.Actually, a lot of my friends went into the role.

It was very normal to do engineering.I didn’t really think about it as a male-dominated thing, it was just something that suited my personality and that I enjoy.