The achievement has been made possible by the implementation of a bespoke Design for Manufacture and Assembly system, which Bryden Wood developed in conjunction with Circle and tailored specifically for their needs.
Marks has embraced industrialised construction as a term, however, but she acknowledges that some industry professionals, working in areas that aren’t directly related to construction, don’t always feel represented by it.. There’s also the term ‘Modern Methods of Construction’ (MMC), which Marks says she used to use but doesn’t anymore.These days she finds the meaning too ambiguous.
In 2005, she bought a 76-year-old company that built steel and concrete volumetric modular, as well as some assemblies.They worked on a huge variety of projects: telecommunications, data centres, schools, hospitals, generator enclosures, and embassies for the government.Marks notes that people tend to think standardised design is something new, but it isn’t.
It’s just an idea that’s coming back, growing in scale, and becoming more mainstream.. Another issue we have in the construction industry, she explains, is that when we talk about this type of industrialised construction work, we tend to focus on the projects we consider to be the sexy, quirky ones.We talk about the asterisk, which will never be done again..
In actuality, her volumetric modular company had built hundreds of schools for New York City.
It was a case of lots of buildings and big applications.It doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman.
We’re all colleagues and we’re encouraged to go out there and be proactive.'.KELSEY PATERSON, INTERMEDIATE ENGINEER, MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL.
'I’m a mechanical engineer.I work on building services.. We design heating, air conditioning & ventilation for all the buildings that we work on.