Chip Thinking® for data centre design: Enhancing efficiency and reducing risk

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They’re tracking everything with technology and bringing industry and universities together to view things from different perspectives.In the United Kingdom, there’s great craftsmanship, as well as in Ireland, where they’ve adopted manufacturing techniques.

In America, there’s volume because of geography.In Australia, they’re getting pressure from Asia.They’ve lost the car industry.

They want to create an industry.They’re bringing in young people and technology, Marks says..

However, regardless of the country, there are a few elements needed to make the shift to industrialised construction work: purpose, government support, academia, the involvement of young people, training, and complementary parts of the ecosystem - including industry and finance.. Education is a hugely important factor and Amy Marks has now written an eight-week course curriculum for Columbia University.

It covers not only prefab but other industrialised construction topics such as how to look at MEP assemblies, manufacturing, automation, robotics, machine learning, AI, and construction platforms.Automatic generation of models ensures that the correct components are used and are performing within their defined parameters and also that the data is properly structured and follows all of the information management protocols.. NB Even if the models are not automatically generated, the same principles can be used to create automated workflows e.g.

scripting or use of software such as Solibri.This helps ensure that even manually created models can be checked to ensure that again all of the technical requirements and constraints are being met..

This digitisation or automation of all aspects of the design and the data attached to it, allows an automated checking process that isn’t subject to human error, so teams can be confident that the testing and certification is rigorous and holistic..In traditional construction, data is manually tweaked, but this human interpretation and intervention can break the compliance thread.