To truly achieve sustainability in design, we should use passive design measures as much as we can to address health and wellness related challenges, as we search for a balance between wellness and energy efficiency.
I was asked to look at creating a schedule for the design of a modular, intensified-pharmaceutical plant, beyond its conceptual stage.This project looked at delivering a new technology to the company in a new and radical way.
Although the core ideas had been established, the next question was how this concept would be physicalised in a way that preserved and enhanced its potential value, in a business, like all, with multiple levels of moving parts..The standard way of scheduling such a study simply results in stress for those doing the work and/or the project manager.Scheduling an organic integration is like trying to Christmas-wrap a puppy.
We firstly looked to use a critical chain approach to planning, which naturally allows for flexibility in the schedule.The ideas were helpful and certainly better fit the real world.
Combined with the concepts of “Focus and Finish” rather than “Meet the commitments” it provided a better collaborative and coordinated approach.. What we realised though was that there were parts of the schedule which were even more organic than buffers or “Focus and finish” could accommodate.
We therefore striated our schedule into four layers:.However, much of this evolution is happening in a piecemeal way.. asBuilt believe the situation is too big for the government to bring entirely under control, and say there are cost overruns for the benefits they’re realizing, which pertain to the inputs.
Lamont calls it a case of swings and roundabouts, noting that without action you get nothing, yet once something is prescribed it seems to be too much.There’s a balancing act required.
However, he says that people are genuinely looking for ways to de-risk programs of work and make additional profit.He also notes that programs and build times are coming down, and that people are looking for ways to modularize and make things work.