The Singapore API plant is the 2024 FOYA Category Winner for Operations, Project Execution.

For some processes, a colony of ants would be much more efficient than a brontosaurus..The point is that scale is a complex but critical issue if you are concerned with multiple factors – profitability, economic agility, sustainability, system reliability.

We cannot just keep doing what we have always done or following over-simplistic thinking.The technological advances of the last 50 years have allowed us to be able to model scenarios from millisecond by millisecond to decade by decade.This allows us to control processes at both ends of the scale – from an oil refinery to a micro robot.

This is a time when we need to learn from nature and think hard about scale..Going back to the rise of mammals or Homo sapiens, a change in scale is an adaptation to a transforming environment.

This is arguably exactly where we are today with industrialisation – the ground is shifting quickly, fissures are opening up, lethal challenge and paths to opportunity are open to us like they were to our ancestors in the Rift Valley.

We need to be at the right scale to survive and prosper.. More in my next Blog….Delivery Platforms for Government Assets.

Data Driven Infrastructure., by setting out how a manufacture-led approach to construction would support the commitments made by Government.

In particular, it sets out how a platform design approach, common in the manufacturing and software industries, could be adopted by the construction sector - and the benefits P-DfMA could unlock.. View and download here:.Platforms: Bridging the gap between construction and manufacture.Applying a digital methodology to organic complexity.