Xometry has a huge amount of pricing data from which it can generate instant quotes which can be validated or refined with vendors.

With pharmaceutical plant design and build, the business aim is to start manufacturing as soon as drug approvals are received, which maximises both health benefits for patients in need, and monetary benefits for the company.Completing the build early is undesirable, as it results in the asset sitting empty.. It’s all about working out what’s most important, Marks says.

Clients can’t have everything, but they also don’t need everything.. “They just want something of value,” she says, “that you understand, and that they understand is of value.”.The construction eco-system and the impact on value.Still, the current industry obstacle isn’t really that we don’t agree on the importance of value, or think that working towards value isn’t a smart idea.. Amy Marks feels the blocker here is the same as it is for topics like prefabrication and productisation in construction - that the entire ecosystem is set up in a way that prevents those things from happening.. “I could determine value as speed,” she says, “but then every contract I have, every process I have, every decision-making point, all these procurement methodologies - they're not based on speed.

So you could say you want speed, but unless you change the contract, the risk management profile, the processes - in order to achieve speed, instead of what you do every single day - you're not going to get speed.”.It’s a fundamental issue and if we truly want to realise the potential industrialised construction has to offer, we need to address it.. “We rarely change the entropy of processes and behaviours around the good idea,” says Amy Marks.

“That's why it doesn't happen, not because it's not a good idea.

It's just everything works against it…”.Asked by Microsoft in 2015 to join their ‘Creative Studios’ R&D team, Sher acted as an innovation engineer and designer for the tech giant, specialising in virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.. Having rejoined Bryden Wood in 2017 with the purpose of establishing a VR and AR development team, Elite says the move was a great opportunity.

Board Director Phil Langley describes the XR + Interaction group’s focus, as being on game engine technology for virtual reality, augmented reality and web/mobile app development.The aim, he says, is on creating and implementing ‘BIM driven workflows for VR and AR across Bryden Wood, as well as a number of highly innovative apps for both public and private sector clients.’.

Sher has, in fact, led the team in the design of the two pioneering, web-based, open source configuration apps on which Jami Cresser-Brown is also working: the Innovate UK funded project for the rapid design of primary schools, as well as the design accelerator for systemised housing in London supported by the GLA.. ‘Elite contributes not just software engineering skills,’ says Langley, ‘but also a creative perspective on software development.Her approach and impact is apparent in each of the apps and tools that the team creates, and has led to the establishment of a unique capability within Bryden Wood.’.