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Since mandating BIM back in 2011, the UK government has played a crucial role in the effort to turn a Platform approach to construction into a reality.There’s been a real consistency to their approach and they have continued to focus their spending power to promote Modern Methods of Construction.

Moreover, the Infrastructure Projects Authority (IPA) who, to some extent, hold the purse strings around infrastructure spending, have also been pushing the construction Platforms agenda..In Asia, we’ve seen the Singapore government encouraging ‘Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction’ (PPVC), and we’ve also seen a focus on Modular Integrated Construction (MIC) in Hong Kong.Both markets have geographical constraints.

Singapore is very land-constrained and has limited ‘internal’ modular manufacturing capacity, but imports have good access to the Malaysian and Indonesian markets.On the other hand, Hong Kong has potential access to Chinese manufacturers.

As such, forms of modular will no doubt be part of the future solution..

In the US, there have been several conferences about ‘industrialized construction,’ and players like Katerra and Factory_OS are developing their own vertically integrated offers..For spaces requiring close temperature control, we do not use refrigerant-to- air cooling..

In labs with extracting equipment, especially fume cupboards, the make-up air required may be a very high volume and allow for centralised air cooling.We always review the possibility of variable-volume fume cupboards to reduce the energy demand, whilst being aware that the stack discharge on fume cupboards must remain constant, which means the fans will require a bleed damper to allow make-up air to enter the fan to maintain constant efflux velocity.

With any fume extracting system, we will ensure the material of construction throughout the entire system is suitable for the extracted fumes.Solvents and acids are particularly good at corroding metal, such as the metal fixing a fire damper to a wall..