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There are currently a number of different institutions involved, all representing different parties within the built environment.

However, even using a completely traditional build, reference design has numerous benefits:.It facilitates the introduction of industrialised construction (including.

platform approaches or P-DfMA. )and the use of manufactured elements in construction.Often owned by the client, it gives greater control over IP and incorporates lessons learned to improve across design cycles.

Multiple use allows for more design refinement, amplifying the benefit of good design.It justifies a greater level of stakeholder engagement ensuring that designs are highly optimised in terms of layouts, space allocation, adjacencies, and functional flows.

Designers can focus more of their efforts on solving the site and context specific challenges.

It facilitates efficient operation and maintenance.We just need it to get better.. A formula for change.

Regardless of BIM or digital twins, we won’t win if things continue as they are.We have fundamental problems which need to be addressed.

These include the lack of productisation in construction, as well as the lack of knowledge about DfMA principles and practices.. We have drawings moving back and forth across industry silos from architects and engineers to fabricators and beyond in a way that means “we build things, prefabricated or not, that aren't what was originally upfront in the process,” Marks says.. She believes this is where we will see the most change and brings up Gleicher’s Formula for Change (revised by Dannemiller), where dissatisfaction, vision, and steps toward the vision must be greater than resistance.. “I actually think we’ve hit dissatisfaction at this point,” she says, pointing out the various issues across the industry: construction companies unhappy with the money they’re making, designers unhappy with the roles they’re playing, owners dissatisfied with the inconsistency.. And the question that needs answering now is: “what does the future look like?”.Marks says that her job at Autodesk is to help people envision what that future could be by taking the current building blocks and foundational pieces and expanding on them.