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Instead, we could save on project costs and schedules if everyone optimised around the same thing, started defining the information behind standardisation and supply chains, and began thinking of projects more like products.. 5.

scale up or down to hit a particular brief.rearrange or reconfigure to suit site constraints and layout.

choose between a ‘seismic’ or ‘non-seismic’ version.choose between key suppliers for major equipment or specific materials required by fire codes etc.. We achieve this level of flexibility by thinking about the asset and the design in terms of ‘Chips’.To create Chips, we break your assets, and the processes within them, down into the smallest, meaningful sets of interacting or interdependent components.

Chips are created at all levels, from.Simplest level e.g.

single components that can be optimised for material efficiency.

An Assembly e.g.It would be impossible to review and approve the design to ensure the required quality for these types of highly regulated buildings.

It would be impossible to get the required supply chain capacity for the required design, manufacture, and construction capabilities.. What we need is a fundamental rethink with regards to the future of coal and how nuclear facilities are conceived, designed, procured, and delivered.Instead of approaching this task as thousands of individual refurbishments, we need to have a unified approach where the design is simplified and standardised in such a way that a much wider range of designers, manufacturers and contractors can participate, and the design knowledge is embedded in building systems and design tools so that everyone involved can benefit from the learning on all the other projects.. To achieve this, we are working with Terra Praxis and their wider team, including specialists from MIT, University at Buffalo, Microsoft and KPMG, to:.

Reduce, rationalise, standardise and optimise the building and engineering systems that are needed for a refurbished plant, in order to.Reduce, rationalise, standardise and optimise the design, approval, manufacture, assembly and operation processes, in order to.