Felicity McKane (she/her)

Trying to do this well requires a different engagement with a client organisation.

This is truly a better, faster, greener agenda.We’re seeing a need to kickstart things as a result of COVID, but there’s also been a reset of some of the policy, and time to create policy, which is now coming to fruition..

Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030.The latest policy refresh has been to Transforming Infrastructure Performance.The first TIP documents came out in 2017 around the suite of Industrial Strategy documents, setting out a vision for how we would start to drive value and deliver our infrastructure.

The Construction Playbook then set out key policies and guidance for how public works projects and programmes are assessed, procured and delivered.TIP 2021 has moved on significantly, painting a much more vivid picture..

Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030, sets out a vision for innovation and reform in infrastructure delivery, covering target and focus areas, as well as providing robust requirements for government clients to deliver against.

The document makes it clear that the UK government is seeking a step change in productivity across the way we plan, design, manufacture, construct and operate.We put a tremendous amount of effort into component design because we know we’ll be using those same components again and again.

Every gram of material you take out of the manufacturing process, out of each assembly process, has a massive multiplier effect in terms of material reduction.This is an important part of sustainable design.

These processes then become highly repeatable, enabling greater levels of automation in construction.We can turn to techniques such as robotic welding to make the parts, for example, and use popular distribution warehousing equipment on site.