Digital Fabrication
We’re unlocking the performance of bio-based materials with digital tools, by integrating design workflow with digital manufacture, fabrication and assembly. BIM technologies allow cost and carbon transparency during early design stages. Designers can quickly produce multiple concept options, updating geometry in real-time against selected constraints, with parametric cost and carbon data outputs.
By integrating design workflow with pre-certified and validated digital components, teams can collaborate efficiently around unified and interoperable BIM platforms, de-risking the specification of high-performance bio-based materials with immediate and transparent cost and carbon certainty. Designers build detailed digital twins, machine-ready for CNC production, avoiding resource misallocation, duplication, and delays.
Kit-of-parts
Building components are produced off-site in a controlled factory environment, leading to improved quality, consistency, and reduced waste.
Our kit-of-parts MMC:
-Enables greater flexibility in adapting to site constraints.
-Is easier to customise and integrate with existing structures.
-Simplifies on-site assembly. Components are designed for easy connection and installation, reducing the need for specialised labour and equipment.
-Accelerates timelines, maximizing off-site manufacturing and streamlining on-site assembly, to reduce development costs.
Distributed Manufacturing
At Natural Building Systems we’ve developed interoperable construction products to harness the climate benefits and performance advantages of short rotation biomass materials, together with the cost efficiencies of integrated digital design and manufacturing tools. Housing needs are delivered with small, low cost, regional hubs responding to local needs with a versatile, standardised, pre-manufactured kit-of-parts, fully benefitting from economies of scale; avoiding the sunk costs and high overheads inherent in other off-site modular technologies.
The first of these production hubs will be operated by ADEPT® Modular, in the East of England near to where materials can be grown, harvested and processed; and close to where thousands of new homes are proposed. This distributed model of manufacture and construction can be replicated in any region of the UK and globally.
