Their idea of construction involves standing in muddy boots, trying to build things in the rain.
In recent years there has been a growing focus on the potential afforded by DfMA to address systemic issues in construction in Hong Kong.The Construction Industry Council, a statutory body established in 2007 to advocate for and promote the Hong Kong construction industry, has been instrumental in growing awareness of the opportunities afforded by DfMA and particularly MiC, the local term for prefabricated and prefinished volumetric modules..
The publication.Construction 2.0. , produced by the Hong Kong Development Bureau in September 2018 with the assistance of KPMG., recognises the following core challenges facing the construction industry:.
Significant future construction volumes.Unsatisfactory mega-project performance.
Unsatisfactory site safety performance.
Declining productivity.This approach supports resiliency and could allow facilities to feed surplus energy back into public networks.
Though the transition to greener power is complicated, incremental steps such as more efficient cooling and reduced water usage can significantly lighten the environmental burden over time.. Urban vs. remote sites: A changing landscape.While data centres have traditionally been located on large, out-of-town sites, newer developments often need to be closer to urban areas.
Latency requirements, local regulation, and land constraints mean that ‘cookie-cutter’ single-storey facilities are no longer the only game in town.Lincoln points out that multi-storey or retrofitted data centres may soon become more common, especially when operators seek low-latency connections in city centres..