allowed us to rapidly evaluate a wide range of configuration options with client stakeholders engaged every step of the way..
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Grid Resilience and Renewables:.Recent power outages in Spain and Portugal highlight the critical issue of grid inertia, a challenge exacerbated by the increasing integration of renewables like solar and wind power, which lack the 'spinning' stored energy of traditional turbines.Surging Energy Demand:.
New technologies, particularly AI data centres and the electrification of transport (e.g., electric cars), are driving unprecedented increases in demand for reliable power, putting significant strain on existing infrastructure.The Importance of 'Network Value':.
The discussion emphasises the need to evaluate energy sources based on their 'network value' - factors like reliability, ability to ramp up/down to demand, and flexibility - rather than just their absolute cost per unit of energy.
Distributed vs. Centralised Power Debate:.Terms lose their meaning, or are used to mean different things by different people, Marks says.
These days we use terms like ‘industrialised construction’ to refer to the overarching DfMA principle being used throughout the built environment.Marks has embraced industrialised construction as a term, however, but she acknowledges that some industry professionals, working in areas that aren’t directly related to construction, don’t always feel represented by it.. There’s also the term ‘Modern Methods of Construction’ (MMC), which Marks says she used to use but doesn’t anymore.
These days she finds the meaning too ambiguous.In 2005, she bought a 76-year-old company that built steel and concrete volumetric modular, as well as some assemblies.