I have consumed, benefitted from cheap energy, travelled on business and for pleasure to far flung places.
There is a huge effort ongoing to find replacement sources for aircraft fuel (SAF).A small amount of this could be diverted to the much more commercially valuable (margin-wise) supply of high purity solvents..
Waste recycling within plants is something many manufacturers are looking to increase.This does not come without quality and technical challenges.Local recycling, which is directly discouraged by some regulations, can increase batch-to-batch cross contamination.
Recycling can concentrate impurities, an issue that requires monitoring and can drive the need for further processing.The technical issues are primarily around ensuring solvent waste is neither mixed with other solvents nor with other water-based waste streams.
In fact, the segregation of waste streams in manufacturing is a very significant first step as this opens the possibility of multiple approaches to extraction, recycling and treatment..
Although there wasn’t a focus on recycling outside of the factory, there seemed to be many more potential solutions in this area.Transforming Infrastructure Performance 2021 is positive, accessible and hopefully provides the drive needed to invest in change by looking for opportunities to align with the rest of the industry, and by taking small steps which can be expanded upon for further growth.. On a related note, although the definition of what we mean by a platform approach to construction is now becoming more fulsome, we can still go back to the IPA document from 2018 and continue to find it completely relevant and valid.
This demonstrates a consistency of thinking which should be quite reassuring.TIP 2021 is just a more detailed roadmap, and this should be helpful to people if they are struggling with the concepts.
Of course, we do run the risk that the term “kit-of-parts” itself is becoming so commonly used now that it may become misused, an issue we’ve seen happen with other MMC nomenclature.We don’t want to create a plethora of kits-of-parts, as value and quality of delivery will be ensured by harmonising those approaches, systems and processes.. We also don’t want people to feel so overwhelmed at the thought of everything changing that they ignore what’s happening and never begin.
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