The future of UK construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Keith Waller, Program Director, The Construction Innovation Hub

This approach not only allows for precision in design but also facilitates the reuse and repurposing of building components, contributing to a circular economy in the construction sector..

The hallways are very spacious, particularly when compared to the ‘narrow corridors’ of other hospitals in which he has worked.‘For safety reasons,’ he says, ‘I feel very reassured that it’s very safe in terms of evacuation and day-to-day movement.

It’s very good.’.Head of Nursing Paul Highton expresses this same sentiment when discussing the various options he has if needing to move quickly to another area of the facility.‘It’s very easy, really,’ he says.

‘There’s a central stairway, which you can sort of run up, or walk with intent… The lifts are very quick.They’re very spacious.

It’s easy to negotiate your way around.

If, for some reason, I couldn’t go that way, there are fire exits at each end of the building, which I could go up if needed.’.Conventional design either has a presumption towards conventional construction or is agnostic regarding the construction method.

Conversely, a DfMA design is developed to be constructed in a particular way..When designing for manufacture and assembly, the designer must find the best way to meet the client’s requirements by considering the most efficient way to manufacture elements of the building and the most efficient way to assemble them on site.

Manufacturing and assembly processes can be carried out in off-site or near-site factories and consolidation centres and also within the site itself.. DfMA means the designer needs to consider the construction methods that will be used from early in a project.Furthermore, to construct a building that has been designed using DfMA the builder needs to understand the basis of the design and how it has informed the construction approach.