What is automation good for?

A key aspect of PETP was to develop standardised solutions at a range of scales that could be deployed across multiple buildings and sites, from components and rooms to entire building types and continues through the new capacity programme(s).

DfMA benefits are maximised when applied across a long-term project pipeline.reference designs.

and pre-manufactured components enables quick adaptation to changes in battery chemistry or manufacturing processes.. As consumer demand for EVs grows, deploying right-sized facilities with standardised design templates and rapid-build DfMA methodologies will help meet increasing battery capacity needs, accelerating the global energy transition..Learn more about the benefits of Industrialised Construction.Although front and centre at this event, laboratories and the professionals intimately involved with them are often overlooked when considering their social and economic value..In fact, the word laboratory can immediately conjure up people in white coats doing tests on wooden benches.

So far, so 1990.. During the Covid pandemic, a light was briefly shone on labs’ enormous significance to our lives.We waited for test results to allow us to go to work, we looked for information about new variants and we waited for a vaccine.

This highlighted briefly just some of the important and transformational work that happens in thousands of laboratories by millions of scientists and technicians.. Now, however, labs have moved to the background once again.. Before collating and expressing the insightful views about laboratories of the future tabled at this event, it feels important to define laboratory in the context of this conversation.

Those present represented lab innovation – from pure research to routine mass-testing; from medical, pharmaceutical and genetics, to battery technology..They’ve got to think of a more interesting way of doing it.

I’ve given them some homework and this time they are going to be presenting their daylighting to me.They all have fully glazed facades on the south facing, so it’s trying to get them to think about the fact it’s going to overheat and they have to look at solar shading and passive design measures.

The overarching premise is getting them to think from an architectural perspective about how they can influence the environmental design of the building.If they do it now whilst they’re still at uni, when they get into practice they can apply the principles more easily, which not only makes the M&E teams’ jobs better, but also, ultimately, delivers a better, more efficient, building to their client.. IP: In general, are architects as focused on this area as they could be?.