Webinar

UK Modern Methods of Construction Webinar

1 Hours Formal CPD

On-Demand

Online

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Course information

In May 2023, RIBA’s ‘Built for the Environment Report’ stated, the built environment is responsible for 38% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) aim to address challenges in the traditional construction industry, offering faster more cost-effective and sustainable solutions. These new methods use offsite mass manufacturing construction techniques, with the aim to reduce waste and deliver net zero carbon structures at scale. The chief objective for MMC is to reduce operational carbon output (emissions generated across the entire lifetime of a building) as well as embodied carbon (emissions generated via construction processes and materials).

Recent research claims that, while operational carbon has seen a steady decrease in carbon output via MMC (buildings are more energy efficient), embodied carbon seems to be on the increase.

Is MMC is the way forward to a sustainable future in construction? Can it really reduce embodied carbon, or can it potentially create more issues? Join us as we explore these schools of thought, delve into the history of MMC, and look at potential solutions and opportunities to decreasing embodied carbon.

Learning outcomes

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Understand the inception and history of MMC

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Understand the two types of carbon emissions: Operational versus embodied

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Come away with a clear grasp of the advantages to using MMC

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Understand potential issues of MMC and alternative methods to reduce embodied carbon

Speaker

Jaimie Johnston MBE, Board Director and Head of Global Systems at Bryden Wood

Jaimie is a recognised global leader in systemising and accelerating the design and construction of major infrastructure. Together with others at Bryden Wood, he is the originator of the Platforms approach to DfMA and the author of four books on this topic including the new deployment manual, Platforms in Practice . He is a leading thinker on the future of industrialised construction and is at the forefront of both private and public sector ambitions to adopt manufacturing-led design and construction practices. He joined Bryden Wood in 1995 and has been instrumental in leading the company’s expansion from disruptive start-up to 300+ people across 9 offices worldwide.

He was an original member of the UK Government BIM Task Group and was the co-author of the 'Design for Manufacture + Assembly' overlay to the RIBA Plan of Works.

Jaimie's books on P-DfMA include ‘Delivery Platforms for Government Assets: Creating a Marketplace for Manufactured Spaces’. This work was adopted as a key articulation of the UK Government’s aspiration to adopt a more industrialised approach to construction and was referenced in their ‘Construction Playbook’ and the Construction Innovation Hub’s ‘Product Platform Playbook’, which describes it as ‘seminal’. The P-DfMA approach is also central to the Infrastructure and Project Authority’s ‘Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030’.

Jaimie was awarded an MBE for Services to Construction in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, June 2021. In 2022, he co-authored the RIBA-published book: Design to Value.