Further complications may also arise where labs divide up previously open plan offices with new partitions, corridors, airlocks, pods, or inner rooms – further complicating egress routes.. For office to lab conversions, fire and egress strategies must be reviewed holistically with the whole building in mind.

Australia needs a shift in mindset..Right now, the supply chain in Australia is relatively immature.

To move towards a component-based model, we must look at procurement and a holistic change in how we deliver construction projects.How we can use multiple, smaller suppliers; procurement; different contracting methodologies, all need to be explored.. 4.Only industry-wide collaboration can change the sector.. Cross-industry associations and groups (like the UK’s.

Construction Innovation Hub. )are necessary to drive sector-wide change.

Multi-stakeholder reports and materials on the practical application of MMC with collaboration from builders, engineers, designers, suppliers, and integrators, will enable everyone to be heard and shape the change.. 5.

We need to get rid of offsite stigma..Short break scenarios are simulations used to ascertain the behaviour of a data hall during a switch to standby power generation following a failure of mains power, employing transient analysis within Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)..

This process has two main components.Firstly, modelling the data hall in 3D with the restart times of all equipment inputted into the model.

And secondly, constructing a 'Flow Network' to represent the chilled water system, which interfaces with the 3D model to provide mutual feedback during the simulation.Through this comprehensive analysis, we can evaluate the performance of both the data hall and chilled water system at every stage of the outage and subsequent restart, thereby validating the resilience of the design and providing a level of assurance..