, by setting out how a manufacture-led approach to construction would support the commitments made by Government.

In actual fact, what we really need are low-power devices to gather information about simple things.We need to know where a particular machine is located, whether it’s vibrating, how noisy it is, and what the light and temperature readings are.. All of this information can be done on devices that are already in plentiful supply.

All that’s needed is something like a LoRaWAN network to connect to.LoRaWAN is a long-range, wide-area network on a different frequency band to WiFi.As a result, it doesn’t compete with cell phones and other devices connected via WiFi on construction sites.

As LoRaWAN is very long-range, it enables construction sites to be quite remote, representing great potential for Australia where it’s not unusual to travel five to ten hours to a site.Europe is already covered in LoRaWAN with something like 10,000 gateways across Europe, over 1,000 in Australia, and around 800 in the U.S. One barrier which presents for the latter, is that their cellular network, which runs across states, makes it difficult to talk between networks.

As such, we need to remove that network issue from IoT construction.

In the case of LoRaWAN, private networks can be established, in addition to the public ones.Additionally, it’s important to recognize that a lot of DfMA principles and processes aren't necessarily specific to construction prefabrication.. “They're just good design principles.

Good for everybody,” she says.. To illustrate, Marks mentions that she once worked on a billion-dollar hospital project, originally planned with over 700 different types of bathroom.The situation wasn’t beneficial for anyone involved, she says, and wasn’t sensible from either a build or operational perspective.

Ultimately, her team whittled the final total down to a mere seven types - a change that worked better on every level of the project.. Talking transformation: ‘Industrialised Construction’ & ‘MMC.’.One of the challenges we’re facing is that, on a very basic level, the construction industry has an issue with language.