Waste recycling within plants is something many manufacturers are looking to increase.
They’re familiar with manufacturing processes and, in some cases, are already supplying other industries and familiar with other mindsets and cultures.They’ll easily adapt to this future delivery model.. As the SMEs grow and invest in their capabilities, we’ll see more drive from that supply chain side because of the confidence they’ll have in the pipeline, and the opportunity to be secure in that investment.
However, one challenge we do face is that SMEs can be hard to reach because they’re often so busy doing their jobs that they don’t necessarily have time to look at these bigger changes.One reason government funding and R&D programmes are so important is because these things enable a de-risked environment whereby SMEs can work and learn the evolving operating and delivery systems..TIP 2: Will there be a future mandate?.
One of the most intriguing parts of Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030, is the potential for a government mandate within the next couple of years.The last big mandate was BIM, and it had a transformative impact.
There’s enormous potential here, but the industry needs to take some time to work out what the terms of such a mandate might be, in order to ensure it manifests as something helpful for everyone..
The mention of a possible future mandate in TIP 2021 reflects positively on the work that has been done so far, and the commitment from the government on the issue.Hinkley Point is still a number of years off completion..
Achieving net zero by 2050.It’s also important to remember that the challenge of turning the climate crisis around rests solely on the shoulders of our working generation.
Although future timescales can sometimes feel abstract, 2050 really isn’t far away and our net zero deadline is looming.In fact, half of the emissions in the atmosphere today were emitted in the last thirty years, so we’re going to have to think really expansively on the issue.