Advancing collaboration and innovation in construction with Integrated Project Delivery | Tim Coldwell, President, Chandos Construction

However, getting construction technology down to the smaller contractors and lower tiers on a construction site remains challenging.

Also illustrated is a biomass-based option.. 4.Difficulties with Carbon Capture.

There are limitations with these carbon capture methods, however, as CCS by itself isn’t enough to bring us to the designated targets for the industry.CCU is the better of the two methods to take meaningful steps towards carbon neutrality, as it puts the carbon to use straight away with less risk of it escaping.The issue with these methods is that there is still work to be done on the technology and estimations for using the captured carbon in directly transforming it into hydrocarbons.. A good measure to show how close a technology is to being used is the technology readiness level (TRL).

This is a scale of 1-9, where 1 is the concept and 9 is a system ready to be implemented.At the time of writing, the TRL for carbon capture is still relatively low, at 7 in the validation stage.

It will require international and governmental investment into research to make the process more efficient and faster, and to diversify which materials specifically could be produced from the captured carbon.

On top of this, other practical constraints include social acceptance of greener methods, including electricity capacity.If you'd like to continue to learn about our Design to Value approach and Modern Methods of Construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.

http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesUK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have announced the results of last year’s Transforming Construction challenge.It’s great news that our project with Landsec and Easi-Space – the world’s first major commercial development designed and built using the Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) – has been chosen and funded as one of the ‘.

demonstrator projects’.that will prove how innovation can transform construction..