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Working to try and ensure that the purpose, value proposition and mission of companies is clearly expressed in the projects they decide to commission.

Defining the Need.As a result of the Infrastructure Projects Authority and the National Infrastructure Pipeline, we now have more clarity surrounding the issue of what needs to be delivered, for who, and the timescales.

Although that’s been available for some time, the conversations around commonality are a significant shift.The Construction Innovation Hub’s work last year with the Defining the Need Report looked at the specific pipelines of infrastructure delivery (particularly social infrastructure), and analyzed what specification requirements were already in place, their maturity, and how much common ground existed..The level of significant overlap was surprising.

Over fifty percent of the estates were not unique in any way.And yet, the way these programs are being delivered is incredibly diverse, which simply doesn’t make economic sense.

Identifying this reality and presenting it in such a clear and accessible way has garnered a lot of support from the government.

The opportunity is clear to see.MMC can be considered as the DfMA designer’s “toolkit”.

The DfMA designer finds the most suitable innovations in the MMC toolkit (or develops new innovations) to meet a project’s unique challenges..There are many construction innovations that can be considered MMC.

The UK’s Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) recently established a Joint Industry Working Group on MMC which proposed the following categorisation: 3D primary structural systems, 2D primary structural systems, Non-system components, Additive Manufacturing, Assemblies and sub-assemblies, Material and Product Innovations and Site Process Innovations.This categorisation is quite diverse and includes a range of pre-manufactured and pre-assembled systems but also non-system components, site-based material innovations and process innovations..