This reality creates an openness to new approaches and will force change, but we need interoperability of data, collaboration, and repeatability to make it happen.. Our need to build will only increase as the global population continues to grow, and the amount of energy and technology infrastructure required expands as we head into the future.

Often owned by the client, it gives greater control over IP and incorporates lessons learned to improve across design cycles.Multiple use allows for more design refinement, amplifying the benefit of good design.

It justifies a greater level of stakeholder engagement ensuring that designs are highly optimised in terms of layouts, space allocation, adjacencies, and functional flows.Designers can focus more of their efforts on solving the site and context specific challenges.It facilitates efficient operation and maintenance.

Critically, Reference Design gives teams the ability to assess a site very quickly using a ‘test fit’ process:.The client brief drives the selection of the appropriate Chips required to build the asset.

These can then be arranged on the site according to the engineers’ predefined rules e.g.

proximity of the Chips to one another; which ones can/can’t be stacked, which ones have to be next to each other vs separated etc..She cautions against trying small, single aspects of industrialised construction on one project at a time, as the projects take years to complete and so the learnings are too few and take much too long to achieve.

She says there’s a need for more people like herself and Jaimie Johnston to challenge what doesn’t make sense and stick their necks on the line.. “It's not easy to be the Queen of Prefab!” she says, adding, “Mike Tyson says, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.I've been punched in the face a lot.

It's not easy, but nothing that's really amazing is ever easy.And, by the way, interestingly enough, I don't really get punched in the face that often at all anymore, which is, I think, a litmus test that things are changing.”.