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This needs to change, she says, or what we’re aiming to do will be nearly impossible.. “You can't have the same behaviour and think you're going to have some dramatically different result (that's going to be great) all of a sudden.’.The reality is that making these changes offers a solution to many of the problems we’re facing as an industry at the moment, including poor productivity, low value, excessive amounts of waste, and carbon emissions.

We need to find a way to facilitate this shift to industrialised construction because almost nothing is coming out in the way we intended it, Marks says, particularly in terms of cost, certainty, and schedule..Still, switching the whole ecosystem to support industrialised construction represents a very difficult challenge..Starting with DfMA.

Marks feels one beneficial change would come from the construction industry committing more broadly to seeking guidance from manufacturing professionals.Currently, that isn’t often happening.

However, if we want to shift to more of a manufacturing mindset, she believes it’s essential that we “get the right people in the room.”.

“The majority of the consultants that are working with our customers and myself on the industrialised construction offering are manufacturing consultants,” she says.Data centres have long been treated as one-off, large-scale engineering projects.

However, Lincoln emphasises that Edged’s approach differs, likening these facilities to repeated products that can be continually refined.'From day one at Edged, my role as Director of Design is really trying to develop our language - call it our ‘kit of parts’ - that is agnostic to site, that can address as much of the range of constraints a site can provide, and that allows us to have repeatable components we can manage, condition, and learn from as we deploy them in projects and see the site adaptation that occurs when we do that.'.

By viewing each data centre as part of a coherent system, Edged can design and build with greater efficiency.Rather than starting from scratch for every project, the team focuses on standardising essential components, creating a ‘platform’ that allows for repeated deployments - each time with lessons learnt fed back into the model.. Why Industrialised Construction makes sense.