DfMA for net zero carbon

Attendees discovered different perspectives on the importance of Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) for reducing carbon via the use of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), developed by CIRIA’s Driving Net Zero Carbon Community of Practice in collaboration with BOS.

DfMA is a key part of the Construction Industrialisation process, the pre-cursor to MMC and Offsite and until it becomes mainstream the full potential of MMC and Offsite construction techniques will never be realised. The term describes two separate processes, Design for Manufacture and Design for Assembly. DFM is more closely associated with product development to improve the quality of products and reduce their cost. In the construction sector it is more about standardisation and sometimes referred to as P-DfMA, with the P standing for Platform, a technique widely used in the automotive industry. DFA is the technique used to make assembly simpler with fewer standardised parts consequently reducing assembly costs. Better quality combined with lean construction can help reduce carbon during all stages of a project.

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