However, if we don’t make this evident to them, they’ll go to work for pure technology companies instead.

One rapidly growing sector with a pivotal role in the global energy transition is the construction of lithium-ion battery manufacturing plants for electric vehicles (EVs)..Battery manufacturers such as CATL, BYD, LG Energy Solution, Panasonic, and others are expanding their portfolios of complex new gigafactories.

These facilities handle chemicals, metals, and intermediate products with stringent safety and environmental control requirements, often in direct partnership with carmakers like GM and Tesla..The costs and timescales associated with constructing such facilities are immense..The Search for Better Value.

The potential benefits of.Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).

in construction are well documented.

At Bryden Wood, DfMA has been integral to our approach for more than 30 years, delivering tangible benefits across various sectors.. DfMA reduces overall cost and time (30% reductions are not uncommon), improves labour productivity, reduces labour requirements, and enhances sustainability by minimising waste, maximising material efficiency, and reducing embodied carbon.Responsibility, risk and reward are increasingly split among an array of organisations whose interests are not aligned, and whose view of a project is unhelpfully narrow.. As a result, value is diluted at every stage and clients end up with built assets that are simply not as good as they should be..

There is a better way, and that is to Design to Value (DtV).. Design to Value.Adopting a Design to Value approach means understanding that the most efficient route to the most efficient solution is first to make sure you analyse and understand the commercial opportunity (or requirement) from every angle.

Metrics such as capital cost and return on investment, for example, don’t define how well an asset functions in the world.There is much more to it than that.