The Dyson Blog: Values we hold to + Value we can create

Late payment is, unsurprisingly, one of the key triggers of insolvency..

In 2019, the UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) – as it was then called – published an MMC Definition Framework (see my earlier article,.What does DfMA stand for?).

This framework proposes Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) as a metric for assessing the scale of MMC adoption on a project.PMV is calculated as the percentage of cost that is derived before any site works and strongly encourages maximising the proportion of off-site works.. As a result, many parts of the construction industry are focusing more and more on off-site prefabrication in pursuit of benefits including lower cost, reduced delivery timescales, higher quality, improved health and safety, less waste and more productive site labour..But is off-site always the best way to achieve these benefits?

Construction sites have been around since the dawn of civilisation.Do we really want to walk away from all that learning, and start moving as much of the construction process as possible into distant sheds?.

Is on-site construction really all that bad?.

Construction sites could be defined as locations where finished assets are built.In fact, most believe they are tightening.

The energy efficiency of data centres (PUE) is being increasingly regulated, especially in the EU.In Germany, specific regulations about the use of recovered heat are coming into force.

There is a great opportunity to use the recovered heat from DCs.However, there are significant problems in exploiting this, and there are country and regional variations in how schemes can work..