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Standardised platforms and components.

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However, BCA also notes that PPVC currently attracts a cost premium of just under 8% compared to.reinforced concrete construction., driven by a range of factors including comparatively low supply and demand.. Singapore has shown a great commitment to achieving the advantages of DfMA but PPVC has been more successful on some projects (and some types of project) than others.

A local mindset has been established that equates PPVC with Design for Manufacture and Assembly at the expense of alternatives.This is starting to change with the government and private sector looking at other DfMA solutions such as panelised lightweight construction and CLT (cross-laminated timber), both of which have been successfully used in Singapore.

However, local industry discussion of DfMA remains dominated by the idea of standardised PPVC modules being stacked up to form finished buildings..

The ongoing struggle to deliver PPVC cost-effectively in Singapore has an increasing degree of urgency.The point is that scale is a complex but critical issue if you are concerned with multiple factors – profitability, economic agility, sustainability, system reliability.

We cannot just keep doing what we have always done or following over-simplistic thinking.The technological advances of the last 50 years have allowed us to be able to model scenarios from millisecond by millisecond to decade by decade.

This allows us to control processes at both ends of the scale – from an oil refinery to a micro robot.This is a time when we need to learn from nature and think hard about scale..