For global data centre operators, achieving consistency across facilities offers advantages like standardised, streamlined procurement (including DfMA modules) and condensed construction timelines.

Collecting even simple information about lead times, inventory, and production status helps to identify potential supply problems and enables owners to make more informed decisions.Using a system that.

connects this data into the construction process.explodes the possibilities for transforming efficiency.. KatalystDI’s system gathers construction data from deep in the supply chain, analyses it, and builds it into a new collaborative way of working.. 2.Too often the ‘now’ trumps the ‘future state’.. We know construction costs have spiralled and variable costs have made the industry think too short-term.

This creates ripples in the supply chain and a focus on immediate, urgent problems.. We need to implement more long-term planning to prevent common issues happening repeatedly.This will be challenging, but as time goes on and datasets improve, reactivity will get quicker, and the process will stabilise as construction supply chain information becomes more freely available.. 3.

Sadly, we don’t have a ‘truth serum’ but improving transparency and consistency of supply chain data improves productivity and planning.. At the moment, suppliers and contractors fix certain problems and course-correct without ever needing to be transparent.. We need a platform that integrates different data sets from different suppliers so we can see and trend what’s going on within the supply chain and create more formal accountability on information being reported..

Bringing data into one place and organising it around packages will give owners a single pane of glass through which to visualise what’s going on between the planning side and the production side of the supply chain.. A deeper understanding of the supply chain enables everyone to see patterns in the availability of products, to ask the right questions, and to plan better.. 4.Jaimie Johnston MBE.

, Head of Global Systems, as he discusses the concept of reference design and its pivotal role in transforming major construction programmes.. Key takeaways:.Understanding reference design:.

Learn about Bryden Wood's unique approach where a centralised, highly optimised core design is developed and then adapted to specific sites and local conditions.This method proves crucial for clients with national or global projects requiring rapid execution..