By building in easy maintenance strategies from the outset, services are likely to be better maintained and need fewer replacements over their life.. Design for disassembly (to be balanced with safe deconstruction).

The strategy lacks a clear, compelling vision and visual representation of what the UK could be, making it difficult to engage a wider audience beyond policy circles.. Establishing a single, understandable measure like GDP per person could provide a clear objective, showing how economic growth directly funds essential services like the NHS.. Watch Navigating the Energy Debate: Challenges and Solutions with Martin Wood, Adrian La Porta and John Dyson.on scale took me on a journey from Mitochondria.the microscopic batteries of life.

to railways and.This blog will focus on the latter and particularly with the size and scale of unit operations in production plants.I will reiterate here that I remain highly curious that most economic discussions focus on economies of scale and thus constantly encourage scale increase and growth.

T. hey talk little about the diseconomies of scale.– a. potentially dangerous blind-spot.

In all systems there are performance curves which demonstrate operational ranges where the most beneficial outcomes are achieved, these are always constrained at both ends.

As density of traffic increase on a motorway, the volume throughput of cars.The perfect future is a ‘data clearing house’ where minor design modifications to better align with supply chain data can transform productivity..

The key to achieving this is better communication between owners and suppliers, where the supply chain can offer equivalent alternatives and remove some ‘bespokeness’ from the process..If we issue the same design intent multiple times but continue to detail it in slightly different ways, the result is lots of slightly different projects, all with different supply chains.

Instead, we could save on project costs and schedules if everyone optimised around the same thing, started defining the information behind standardisation and supply chains, and began thinking of projects more like products.. 5.Only by dispelling the mystique of construction, can we reveal real value..