I see academics, businesses, and organisations of people focusing on the problems that face us, not just out of good intent but out of facing cold, hard realities.
This is a topic in its own right that we’ll explore another time – but what we can say for now is that construction Platforms seem like a sensible way of facilitating this approach.. What are the challenges to widespread adoption of construction Platform design?.None of the challenges present in getting the industry to adopt a construction Platforms approach are technical.
The majority of objections are linked to cultural mindset factors.These include issues like insurance warranties, intellectual property, and risk allocation in construction.We’re not suggesting traditional construction isn’t risky.
We know from government data that almost 10% of their spending on construction is allocated to risk.This hasn’t changed despite many years of operating in this way.
However, it’s a risk that is, to some extent, understood.
That said, construction Platform design does help to change that risk profile dramatically and to reduce the amount of risk on a construction project..At the end of the presentation, she asked, “how much of this can you use for the next project?”.
The answer: “None of it.”.It’s not acceptable, she says, addressing the position of the serial owners who are building hospital after hospital, school after school.
Owners who are spending billions of dollars.. “What owner in their right mind is going to spend money and not get consistency of any data,” she says, “to learn from, reuse and evolve, to be more operationally efficient?How could that be acceptable?”.