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Joined up thinking may improve the situation and help to find a path forward..

This would enable partners to develop highly repeatable solutions and have them tested or certified or have themselves accredited and ‘pre-qualified’ to meet certain standards, making the entire procurement process more straightforward.. ‘Delivery’.is also linked to ‘Digital Tools’ though a digital marketplace which is very much the missing piece of the puzzle.

However, with the likes of the Hub’s Defining the Need workstream and with a number of digital configurators in use, we are starting to put the enablers in place to facilitate this.. Can we look to digital marketplaces that already exist?.There are plenty of examples from which we can learn; the combination of standard components, digital tools and e-commerce has numerous precedents.While none of them is a perfect fit for construction procurement, they all have certain synergies with a potential marketplace for Platforms and it is worth exploring them.. Amazon.

Amazon is of course the most famous digital marketplace, and the one most people are familiar with (except Alibaba perhaps, depending on where you are reading this).But it is not necessarily the best example to learn from.

For one thing, the product range is far bigger and more diverse than construction would need.

More importantly, Amazon is not a neutral broker, a place where the price is set by the market.This is all adding to the excitement.. Research acceleration due to COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic took hold just as academics and researchers received funding.The resulting lockdown forced the redesign of entire research programs, an accomplishment achieved with great perseverance and agility.

Challenging Space Frontiers in Hospitals.by Dr Grant Mills from UCL, and involving Bryden Wood Director Steven Tilkin, incorporated Bryden Wood’s innovative work in platform design (P-DfMA).