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I always go back to a #infrastructure project I worked on a number of years ago. The deliverable was drafted to be only #models to 80% and only then would #drawings be delivered with a paperless office. What happened? Month or so in, at the design meeting with all teams involved, initial #federatedmodel being demonstrated on the flashy new big screen, with what will be delivered up to 80%. Then the question from the delivery authority. This is all great but when will we see the initial preliminary sketches and drawings? Answer: This is it up till 80%. Outcome of meeting 80+ drawings and sketches produced over the next few weeks and a coordination room filled with piles of check sets on A3 throughout the design process. Can we do it of course we can, does the whole lifecycle of the project and everyone involved want us to, or have the capability to carry it out to the end, well that's still a story in writing. We can say it's being done in other countries, but those countries are not #Australia and it's landscape. Do we have pockets of it, probably, is it common practice I doubt it, only for complex junctions to make sure it all fits. I'd take a stab and say we still have a long way to go. It also does not help the terms of #BIM their so called roles and definitions are sitting in a cloudy mess, depending on where you get your information, will depend on the answers and outcome you get. Do your research, tread carefully in this technological world we now live in. Though it may look like sunshine and rose filled gardens, dig deeper and you will find thorns.

Due to its similarity to industrialized products, the offsite construction industry is seen as a focus for the transformation of #Construction 4.0 Many digital technologies have been applied or have the potential to be applied to realize the integration of design, manufacturing, and assembly. Recent estimates suggest that the #UK’s #offsite construction sector accounts for seven per cent of total construction output, worth over £1.5 billion to the economy, but it has the potential to achieve much more. Offsite Expo Prateek Khare Ian Howell Paul Finney Henry Mickleburgh

The discussions within the sector have never been more important. Joining all the people here to discuss the real issues in the industry was not only timely but prompted some honest and authentic discussions about the challenges in construction and the need to have more real examples of when things go well. Howere it is almost more important right now to look at when things don’t go so well and have plans in place to show how these can be managed and prepared for. Huge thanks to everyone (all mentioned here) who gathered together, prompted by weekend calls, who didn’t spend their time trying to gloss over the hard conversations and instead are looking for ways to deliver well and use the learnings of the past to push forward. I look forward to more robust conversations and am constantly looking to gain knowledge of areas I am less familiar with. #nhouse #honesty #clientfocus #learnings #movingforward

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Alright, a bit of weekend light reading (I would leave it until then) for anyone following my series (saga with this paper) of the Discontinuity of (insulation/reality/this sentence) bits of buildings. This time it is the slab junction with the wall, who would've thought you could go on about this for 20 pages, not me, sorry it is a long and hard read. No matter how much I tried I ended up leaving most of it in as it just provides a more complete picture(s). This series of papers is based on my want to understand the real difference between the things I have observed in standard (actually well above standard, 8-Star in Canberra) construction compared with what I know works. I then felt the need to share it with more people because it should be more widely understood. This is representing how our buildings actually work. These papers are challenging the regulatory system to do better with better information, that is reasonable, I just appreciate that they have not had the benefit of better information, but now they do, and I would expect that it is only reasonable that this is used. This is a regulatory system that should be providing the best possible outcomes for Australians and Australia, I can't see that this is the case with the NCC and NatHERS at this time. These papers are questioning business as usual and providing the evidence as to why I know that they are questions that need addressing at the regulatory level. Once you know, you have to act, that is what I hope this serves to have anyone else interested, or in the industry also ask these questions and actually act and make submissions to the current NCC2025 code public consultation. The only time is now, later is really actually a bit too late. Felix Andrews has spotted a clearly confusing error on Page 9: "Cold spots are mould spots, if any inside surface is too cold it will ~~lower~~ raise the relative humidity of the air nearby". The cold surface will lower the air temperature and raise the relative humidity of the air nearby to the surface.