From Traditional to Modern, a GC's shift to Offsite Construction

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The episode discusses the transition from traditional construction methods to modern offsite construction, featuring insights from Paul Drayton of Laing O'Rouke.

See all our content and events: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Check out our LinkTree ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host ⁠⁠ Johnathan Munkley & Matthew Jackson ⁠ with guest: ⁠ Paul Drayton from Laing O'Rouke Laing O'Rouke is one of the world's leading construction companies, who like everyone else is looking to increase productivity and quality of their projects to their clients. Paul Drayton (Head of Digital) tell us the story of turning their projects from traditional methods and processes into modern offsite, factory components when assembled on site. This has been an interesting journey, one with both wins and losses. Paul gives us great insight into these learnings and where he sees the future of construction and the digital support needed to make it happen. Enjoy! This is the ZERO Construct podcast, the podcast dedicated to bringing you insights and expertise from professionals around the world on how we can create a more future proof industry while reducing carbon in the built environment. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Find out more about ZERO and join our community today.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you have any questions or are interesting in sponsoring the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Johnathan Munkley, Matthew Jackson

Guest: Paul Drayton

Topics covered

• offsite construction
• digital transformation
• construction industry
• productivity
• sustainability

Keywords

• offsite construction
• digital support
• construction methods
• productivity
• sustainability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Laing O'Rouke, ZERO Construct

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