Reduction of the amount of material used.

However, if we want to shift to more of a manufacturing mindset, she believes it’s essential that we “get the right people in the room.”.“The majority of the consultants that are working with our customers and myself on the industrialised construction offering are manufacturing consultants,” she says.

“You have to think of things like systems architecture, and you have to understand things like flow.These are guys who live, breathe, eat, drink and sleep manufacturing, who understand how to apply it to these spaces.Right now in the construction business, you have lots of these contractors opening up fab shops, and they're not going to manufacturing consultants to figure out how to set up a fab shop.

It’s like, wait.Why wouldn’t you do that?”.

Furthermore, this industrialised construction shift isn’t going to happen overnight.

It’s taken the automotive industry years to get to the use of six-axis robots, but that was an evolution from very simple automation.The fear of falling is a friend who reminds you to stay away from the edge and to keep hold of something.

The sorts of friends who I met on the train were concerned about those around them.. Of course, when we start to shine a light into the cave, then we can see where there may be danger, but also where there may be richness and treasure..It is certainly more frightening to travel into new territory alone.

In a group, where you can look out for one another and work together, the path forward becomes easier, safer, and quicker.. What this bizarrely brings into my mind is the infamous story of.A Christmas Carol.