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In meetings with contractors, and other partners, I've had to present my solutions, and work with others to implement them within the overall design.I was really pleased when my manager gave me a data centre project to lead, from the BIM side.”.
So would you recommend apprenticeships?.“My apprenticeship has shown me what's possible and given me the ambition to go on and do a university degree.On the way, I've matured as a person and have gained confidence from real-life problem solving.
I also value being part of a team.I'd say to any school leaver who's not sure about university that there are some great career paths to be taken through apprenticeships.
I had a couple of years working in a job I didn't really like after school.
The apprenticeship has made work more enjoyable and given me the prospect of a career, not just a job.”.To create a well-orchestrated assembly line with productive workers carrying out pre-determined, standardised and well-understood tasks in predictable timeframes..
In short, we want construction sites to be more like factories.. Off-site and modular construction: are factories really all that great?.Prefabrication in factories (off-site construction) is often thought of as a panacea, a sure-fire way for construction sites to achieve greater productivity.
However, factories can also be run inefficiently, and if traditional construction methods are simply shifted into a factory setting, the benefits of MMC can be diluted or lost..In some cases, building off-site in a factory may even be less efficient than on-site construction.
(Editor: Quick Chargers)