In this scenario, capital costs will become something of a blip in terms of the overall service offering being brought to market.. P-DfMA and the UK’s Role within the International Community.
In order to make MiC adoption more appealing to private sector projects, the Buildings Department of Hong Kong has established a Pre-Acceptance Mechanism for MiC.The Development Bureau has also released a.
Technical Circular.(2/2020) which sets out a range of government projects for which MiC adoption will be mandatory.Early adopter projects in Hong Kong have had some success with MiC although so far this has been limited to particular building types, primarily social and elderly housing.
A range of other projects are in development, however Hong Kong remains a comparatively small market which makes it challenging to scale up a modular supply chain.There is huge production capacity available in neighbouring mainland China but Hong Kong’s building regulations limit available supply sources.. Hong Kong has an aging construction workforce but is well situated to take advantage of the industrial capability already present in the Greater Bay Area.
Moving more construction work off-site into a factory is the logical solution.
With road and sea access to a large supply chain with few import restrictions in the Greater Bay Area, it will be possible to pre-manufacture components of almost any size required to achieve benefit..In fact, the word laboratory can immediately conjure up people in white coats doing tests on wooden benches.
So far, so 1990.. During the Covid pandemic, a light was briefly shone on labs’ enormous significance to our lives.We waited for test results to allow us to go to work, we looked for information about new variants and we waited for a vaccine.
This highlighted briefly just some of the important and transformational work that happens in thousands of laboratories by millions of scientists and technicians.. Now, however, labs have moved to the background once again.. Before collating and expressing the insightful views about laboratories of the future tabled at this event, it feels important to define laboratory in the context of this conversation.Those present represented lab innovation – from pure research to routine mass-testing; from medical, pharmaceutical and genetics, to battery technology..