The MOJ wanted to design a new type of prison focused on rehabilitation.

Ensure transparency and provenance of raw materials and documentation of the complete manufacturing process etc.. Objectively allow buyers to compare products against a range of value criteria; not just costBe a neutral broker, charging buyers and sellers a small fee to use the service on the market does not itself influence the price.Allow for standard products as well as compatible enhancements.

Facilitate use of a range of configurators via API’s or plug-ins.Provide instant pricing for the most standard items, with other orders priced in hours.Ensure data security while also capturing appropriate data to fuel the application (in time) of machine learning and AI to help with pricing and pipeline prediction.. Obviously, this is a complex challenge.

It raises a whole range of issues that would need resolving regarding insurances, warranties, IP, etc.And there is the big question of who would own the marketplace?

Ideally, this would be a neutral broker, such as Government.

And there is even a partial precedent here in the UK in the form of G-Cloud, the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace for cloud technology and specialist digital services..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.