Delivery Platforms for Government Assets

Government will use the scale of its construction portfolio to help transform the market for creating high performing assets improving the service for users, citizens and society and building a highly skilled and productive workforce. It will improve the performance of assets towards international benchmarks, delivering enhanced quality, lower carbon and increased whole life value. It will develop advanced manufacturing capability, products and services in the UK that could be exported globally.

Government spends around £10 billion per annum buying buildings and more on maintaining and operating its existing stock - across schools, hospitals, prisons, offices and social housing. However, the multiplicity of departments, agencies and arms-length bodies that specify, procure and operate these facilities means that there are a wide range of solutions deployed to solve similar problems.

Government buys its buildings from a construction industry that is fragmented, wasteful, unpredictable and unproductive. At the simplest level, government buildings are made up of a series of spaces with different functions and customised layouts, and physical systems that create different boundaries between spaces, with, external appearances and scale. However, currently we don't always ask for it in the right way and we often ask the wrong people to do it for us.

In order to reduce cost or programme, typical value engineering strategies are in fact exercises in reducing specification or compromising the design vision. Other cost reduction exercises focus on the supply chain, where savings of a few per cent may be achieved by squeezing suppliers.

The overall aim would be to improve productivity across the design, delivery and maintenance of the government estate by adopting best practice in design, procurement, manufacture, assembly and operation; reducing rework and duplication of effort; minimising waste and risk.

Jaimie Johnston, Bryden Wood's director and head of global systems, has written the strategy focusing on horizontal infrastructure projects - Data Driven Infrastructure: From digital tools to manufactured components.

He also recently wrote Delivery Platforms for Government Assets: Creating a marketplace for manufactured spaces - which focuses on buildings, stating that more design could also be carried out automatically: "Elements that were repeated such as gantries, you could easily teach a computer to design this."

This will be discussed in greater detail by Jaimie Johnston, Head of Global Systems, Bryden Wood and Elite Sher, Head of VR + AR, Bryden Wood Technology at Explore Offsite Outlooks - they will be presenting on 'Delivery Platforms for Government Assets.'

Jaimie Johnston and Elite Sher will be joined at Explore Offsite Outlooks by an outstanding speaker line-up that includes: Andrew Orriss, Sales Director - SIG360; Ben Lever, Future Skills Manager - CITB; John Eynon, Engagement Lead - BIM Alliance; Dominic Thasarathar, Primary Thought-Leader - AutoDesk; Alan Clucas, Director - Explore Manufacturing - Laing O'Rourke… and more. For the full list of speakers go to: http://www.exploreoffsite.co.uk/2018-events/explore-offsite-outlooks/conference-speakers/