how production unit scale in some circumstances could have very significant impacts on financial returns.

Yes, those assets require flexibility, but the need for flexibility doesn’t have to be at odds with standardisation.Using P-DfMA, we can have both..

Flexibility in modular construction.At Bryden Wood, it’s a guiding principle that we never compromise the design to fit the system.Rather, our aim is to allow a level of flexibility in the components to resolve the tension between the need for optimisation and variability – what the market wants, or clients need.

For example, with the Platform to superstructure, we have a series of standard connection brackets, which link the beams and columns.The same brackets are used consistently and they are colour-coded.

This makes it easy to teach people how to do the assembly and they become very quick at doing it.

However, the beams and columns can be any length.In the first instance, it considers the notion that every project has a problem statement.

In essence, what problem are we trying to solve?Let’s take the pandemic as an example.

In this situation, the government is trying to allow people to go about their business, enabling the economy to grow.At the same time, they’re trying to stop the spread of the disease and protect life.