The Forge: The world's first P-DfMA commercial office building opens in London

Our aim was to deliver a scheme that added value to the lives of the local community..

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.

governmental support and policy inclusion, and for uptake in relevant sectors and industries, such as industrial plastic production.One aspect of the project was to maximise the use of DfMA and set a new benchmark for public sector adoption.

It soon became apparent that systems developed for the MOJ (whose estate includes education, healthcare, offices, sports halls and workshops) would also be appropriate for the wider public sector..The cross-department Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) Working Group fostered this approach and adopted the term ‘Platforms’.

It was brought across from manufacturing thanks to the involvement of the Manufacturing Technology Centre who are now a partner in the Construction Innovation Hub.This Group’s work was documented in ‘.