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Achieving more with less using MMC

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Reduced Ccarbon by 47 tonnes

On primary settlement tanks for Wolsingham Sewage Treatment Works using offsite manufacturing.

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15% resource hours saved

Established a digital twin to manage data and streamline workflows on a level crossing removal project in Victoria. 

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Reduced delivery time by 40%

Pioneering modular integrated construction methods, reduced delivery time of the InnoCell 'tech talents' dormitories in Hong Kong

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8900 pre-cast elements on one project

These were used to create 155 bridges on the Woolgoolga to Ballina Pacific Highway Upgrade, increasing certainty and enabling economies of scale. 

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Building structure concrete reduced by 30%

In an Australian hospital first, we applied a prefabricated floor slab technology to reduce concrete used in Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre

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Reduced whole life carbon by 30%

Utilised mass timber to reduce whole life carbon of a distribution centre. 


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What MMC can do for you

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For Constructors

Reducing disruption to local communities and minimising waste is key to sustainable construction. It is also critical that the methods you use on-site support the safety of your people and stakeholders.

MMC can help you optimise value and efficiency while vastly improving on-site safety.

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For Developers

For projects today, the top deliverables are quality, time, cost and carbon. Meeting these objectives will lead you to the desirable asset you envisioned while also maximising your return on investment.  

MMC can accelerate the design and construction programme, which means the asset’s value and revenue generation can be realised earlier than traditional methods. 

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For Government Bodies

MMC supports delivery of reliable, resilient buildings and infrastructure while reducing construction costs and timelines. Investing in MMC can provide opportunities to grow the economy, develop a skilled workforce and reduce carbon emissions while delivering your major projects efficiently. MMC can reduce disruption to the community during major projects, and improve visibility for design and construction teams.

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For Asset Owners

If you’re upgrading infrastructure, it’s important to maintain its operations while minimising disruption during improvement works.

Or you might be upgrading an existing building, changing layout, capacity or even its use.

MMC can accelerate the design and construction programme, meaning the asset’s value and revenue generation can be realised earlier than traditional methods. It also creates lean design opportunities that otherwise aren't possible using traditional methods. 

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For Architects

While creating your beautiful designs you still want to know that they will deliver your client’s objectives around carbon, cost, time and social value.

MMC can help you push boundaries in design while delivering the desired value-based outcomes for your client. 

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For Logistics Providers

Efficiency and supply chain certainty are essential to reliable freight and logistics.

MMC can deliver visibility of logistical requirements because of the inherent requirement for detailed planning of production times and on site works which MMC drives. 

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For the community

Influenced by their need to work, socialise and feel part of a community. 

They care about being able to move in and around the place they live with certainty of safety and limited inconvenience from project works around them.

MMC can help their wellbeing by minimising disruption and maintaining a sense of control over their environment.

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For Manufacturers

Having a clear view of the upcoming pipeline and balancing production volumes to ensure a consistent operation and predictable workload is critical to creating economies of scale for the built industry.

It’s important that manufacturers are notified in advance of a programme of works so that they can schedule it into their factory. 

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For Investors

Delivering a high-quality asset to the pre-agreed timescale will maximise your return on investment.

MMC can help you through the quality processes adopted in production and installation offering greater certainty of the products performance. 


Why choose MMC?

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Improve productivity

By moving construction into a controlled offsite manufacturing setting, we can address reliability, quality issues and provide certainty in design programming and cost.

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Improve health & safety

Reducing labour time onsite and working in secure, quality-controlled factory settings is known to improve health and safety outcomes.

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More sustainable

Offsite improves sustainability credentials by reducing waste and environmental impact due to traffic congestion, noise and air pollution during the construction process.

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Provides social value

Training and upskilling the workforce to work with offsite manufactured products provides more secure and attractive job opportunities, generating investment and growth.


We've got MMC covered

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Digital technologies are at the core

Working in 3D design across all stages of the project lifecycle, we use data to develop efficiencies and create insight. 

Using the data on projects we can create sophisticated virtual reality sign off processes, produce embodied carbon calculations and set up KPI dashboards to track progress.

Learn more about our Digital Solutions

Designing for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)

Working closely with the supply chain, including manufacturers, we create designs that can be easily manufactured in a factory and assembled onsite. 

By using a platform approach to standardise components in our designs means we can enhance production and repeatability at scale.

Expertise delivering MMC categories

WSP has applied MMC elements such as offsite construction, prefabrication, modular construction, and innovative materials like cross-laminated timber to projects across the globe. 

We are experienced in all of the 7 categories defined by the UK's MMC definition framework and are the forefront of research and development. 

Tracking asset performance with digital twins

A digital twin is a digital representation of your physical asset: it uses real-life data to track and manage its performance and provide user insight.

Digital twins can be used at different stages of your project lifecycle. We can use them to monitor the manufacturing process and/or provide them at asset handover so you have a digital representative which can be used to track and monitor the asset over its lifetime.

Exceed expectations with Digital Twins

Explore scenarios virtually. Inform decision making. Reduce and quantify risks. Optimise business processes. A living digital representation of a physical system that is dynamically updated with data to mimic the true structure, state and behaviour of the physical system and used to drive business outcomes. We understand your challenges and know how to get the most out of software tools to achieve your broader objectives and derive better results.

Explore our Digital Twin Guide

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Advisory

Our industry experience means we are ideally suited to assist you with your MMC strategies, facilitate organisational change and unlock investment to ensure you are future ready.

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Design

We are transforming the industry with actionable innovation. Our designs combine imaginative thinking and common-sense solutions to enhance outcomes across your project and asset's lifecycle.

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Implementation

Our expert teams use the latest digital technologies to move through technical plans into tangible outcomes, delivering projects efficiently and effectively. 

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Asset performance

Working in a BIM/digital environment means we can use data to track the operational performance and maintenance of assets, maintaining performance into the future.

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Ross Harvey
Director - Structures
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Sam McWilliam
Managing Director - Transport
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Matthew Gallaugher
Director of Digital
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Dan Cunningham
Principal Director, Structures and Civils Lead, NSW
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