Offsite modular prefabrication helped improve programme delivery..

The group felt that DCs need to be part of regional, city, utility, industrial and energy strategies.Joined up thinking may improve the situation and help to find a path forward..

Discussion in the room moved to nuclear self-generation for a while and how far we are away from viable small nuclear power self-generation.The modular size of small nuclear is critical.Due to the need for power resilience, sites would need to have some arrangement of N+1 power units – if each unit is too large then the investment costs would be simply too high.

The modularity of SMRs and suitability to support DC loads will be important.. Licencing and regulation of nuclear power.Small modular reactors are looking to address some of the licensing and regulation issues with repeatable modular design.. Based upon conversations and work with the small nuclear development ecosystem, there was a stated view that an industrialised modular nuclear offering is 20 years in the future.

This view is in stark contrast to some who believe we will see offerings in three to five years.

The difference may be in the maturity of the technology.include the new workflows that a Platform construction approach will unlock, including automated and computational design.

Digital tools and spatial analysis are strongly linked; it is through the spatial analysis work that we have derived the rules that underpin our configurators.for housing and schools respectively, or computational design workflows such as.

Rapid Engineering Model.(REM) for Highways England, or.