Two days with Architects, Consultants, Developers, and Technologists to network and to discuss how we can industrialise construction.
The translation of industrial production methods into the context of architecture and building construction has largely been unsuccessful.
Industrial production concepts that have been developed in mainly product design or the automotive industry, which are based on a high degree of standardisation and the mass customisation of the products, have proven difficult to make work in the construction industry and the projects where they have been applied are most often of low architectural ambition. The desired cost and time savings rarely materialise.
Furthermore, these ‘product system solutions’ force early commitment to specific suppliers. Their proprietary nature drastically limits scalability leading to competing system approaches rather than a change in how we build. Recent failures of these, often vertically integrated, system solutions, Katerra and L&G are among the most prominent, have demonstrated that these closed approaches are not solving the problem.
At the same time, most architectural projects are designed as one offs, with no transfer of embedded knowledge and a highly manual and bespoke construction process, while client increasingly demand better performance and higher quality of the outcomes.
We have developed an approach to solving this, which focuses on the early involvement of the supply chain in the design process, a kit of parts approach that looks at the standardisation of performance criteria and interfaces rather than the standardisation of products and the development of modular systems.
This creates an interoperable and scalable open-source approach that enables the entire construction industry supply chain to bring their industrial production expertise to bear. It enables individual architectural solutions to be delivered with lower costs and shorter construction times to a higher quality, and fill the current Fabrication Gap
The Symposium will test this thesis in a series of themed moderated panel discussions, with the aim to develop an industry wide approach that will enable a leap forward in the productivity and quality of building construction, which we believe is a prerequisite to better building performance and a necessary shift of the industry to zero carbon.
Organised over one and a half days we will also provide ample opportunity to network over food and drink.
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April 18, 2024 02:00 PMUntil
April 19, 2024 04:30 PMVenue
University of Applied Arts, ViennaAddress