Our industry-leading approach to MMC has developed over the years to consider ways to maximise the productivity of both off-site and on-site construction works to achieve better project outcomes for our clients.. Much of our thinking has been published on our website, particularly in our series of books about Construction Platforms, including the recently updated.

The conclusion we came to was to knock down a series of existing buildings close to the current facility.This would allow us to build the new refinery while keeping the old one going for as long as possible, before transferring operations to the new one.. As you can imagine, a refinery is a hugely technical building and the M&E element is the most significant part of the project.

We designed the building, it went out to tender and is currently in construction.It’s due to be completed later this year, with commissioning taking until 2023.We are continuing to work on the project as Design Guardian.. A complete mechanical and electrical engineering solution.

Over the years, design and build of complex facilities has become piecemeal.Contracts are split up between designers and contractors, and everyone tries to minimise or pass on risk.

The trouble with this is that it destroys value for the client – it removes the big picture view, which is really important, especially on highly complex and intricate jobs like laboratories or some of the others I’ve described here.

Some of the time, we find ourselves having to fix work that has been poorly conceived and carried out because of this way of working.Creative Technologies could only thrive in a company with a truly integrated approach..

Does Creative Technologies mean Construction Technology?.Construction Technology is a big category.

It includes the technology used to track the movements of a tower crane as well as highly complex design authoring software.It attempts to make existing tasks easier, but not necessarily change the underlying nature of those tasks.. Part of our endeavour is to bring together all sorts of discrete technologies and products, whose aim is to solve discrete problems.