In fact, we’re already seeing a wide range of benefits from the adoption of Platforms (P-DfMA) and our wider approach using modern methods of construction.

Broadening value outcomes with ‘Build Back Better’.If we look back over the last decade, 2010 saw a focus on plans to deal with the deficit.

A lot of projects were cancelled, including highway schemes and school building programmes.The aim was fiscal consolidation.When spending plans came out, much of the narrative was focused on efficiency.

There was the first iteration of the National Infrastructure Plan, the Government Construction Strategy and the BIM mandate that followed in 2011.However, as we’ve progressed, that focus is shifting.

It’s no longer a case of trying to do the same things we’ve always done, just more efficiently.

We’re interested now in doing new and better things.PRiSM benefits from substantial research into a broad cross-section of residential developments, various typologies, areas and spaces within apartments.

We wanted to understand just how much standardisation was actually taking place.We also wanted to map out all of the different typologies it was possible to build, in order to create a common language with which to talk about housing.

Because of the density requirements of inner-city London sites, we initially focused on central corridor apartment buildings within PRiSM.We started with typologies which were most commonly in use and would therefore provide the biggest benefit.