The Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) project answered an important question for large companies wondering how to build high-quality facilities in emerging markets, quickly and efficiently, with varied local capability.
Appropriate levels of autonomy, while recognising the need to maintain prisoner and staff safety.Importance of mobile and static technology.
Green, clean, tidy spaces.Flexible, multi-use buildings to support education and work-centric activity.Decent staff facilities.
A progressive regime.The PETP team viewed emerging potential design solutions through two key lenses: effectiveness and efficiency.
‘Effectiveness’ is the ability of a design to deliver the required rehabilitative outcome, while ‘efficiency’ is the total whole life cost required to achieve this outcome..
This collaborative assessment process included data visualisations and the transparent, objective evaluation of different potential solutions.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.
This means DfMA can be much more collaborative than conventional design, bringing the designer and builder closer together to pursue a common goal..There are many different methods of constructing a building.