These are the people with the higher level skills who can land straight into management roles of organisations and really make significant shifts in how things are done.
Ultimately, we believe you will be able to get a price instantly from a vast, distributed network of small suppliers, as you develop your construction Platform model.These suppliers will also be publishing details of their pipelines and capabilities, enabling you to plan your project precisely.
Moreover, as all of these standardised components will be inexpensive, we don’t believe we’ll be costing solely on pure, capital costs.There will also be a focus on other factors: the carbon footprint of the individual manufacturer, what they spend on R&D, staff welfare, and so on.Consequently, we will be looking for added value from our manufacturers, and this will change how we think about the procurement process going forwards..
In fact, we think it’s likely the procurement process will suddenly become more akin to a model like Amazon.That is to say, payments will be instant and delivery onto site will happen automatically.
Additionally, these deliveries will be pre-coordinated with site activities and made by autonomous vehicles.
This will make sure that components arrive exactly when needed and that deliveries place the least amount of stress on local infrastructure.. A for assembly in DfMA: automation in construction and fewer operatives on site.Traditional Approaches won’t work – a platform (P-DfMA) approach will.
If we use traditional approaches to design, procure and build nuclear plants at the scale we need to get the required level of carbon emission reductions, we simply will fail:.It would be too costly to be attractive to utilities companies and plant owners.
It would be too risky because of the typical levels of cost uncertainty in nuclear projects.It would take too long and be too disruptive to do the required refurbishments.