Platform Approach Guide - Platform Approach Insight Asset

What’s driving this industry change?

The UK Government supports platform approaches in construction and requires the industry to consider its application.

What are the benefits of
a platform approach?

There are many reasons to start using a platform approach. Including increasing efficiency, safety, sustainability, alongside reducing risk and waste.

What even is a platform
approach?

It is a method of building that uses a set of standardised components that can be assembled in different ways to create a variety of buildings.

Why start using a platform approach now?

The traditional approach to construction is inefficient and wasteful. This new approach can improve decision-making and reduce costs.

What’s driving this industry change?

What are the benefits of a platform approach?

What even is a platform approach?

Why start using a platform approach now?

Explore our seven steps to DWMP success

What’s driving this industry change?

The UK Government supports platform approaches in construction and requires the industry to consider its application.

What are the benefits of
a platform approach?

Follow a straightforward approach familiar to any project, using simple scoring methods initially and then progressing to detailed modelling of the potential options:

Generic
Unconstrained
Constrained
Feasible

5. Characterise the
problem

It is a method of building that uses a set of standardised components that can be assembled in different ways to create a variety of buildings.

4. Establish the extended
baseline

Consider the factors, other than flooding, that affect coastal and river receiving waters
Model the current and future performance of these factors

3. Establish the initial
baseline

Define current and future flood risk to properties
Assess the risk for annual floods between a probability of 1:1 and 1:50
Implement no regrets solutions like clearing blockages and repairing ineffective pumps straight away

2. Risk-based planning

Define what the DWMP will cover
Assess the current performance of the DWMP area against the relevant performance measures set out in the risk-based screening
Assess the trends that will affect future performance

1. Set the strategic
context

Define the geographic boundaries for the DWMP areas
Establish a group of stakeholders who can help guide the rest of the process
Identify which of the company-level performance commitments, set as part of the 25-year corporate vision and the five-year periodic reviews, are relevant to the DWMP

7. DEVELOP STRATEGY

6.
DEVELOP
OPTIONS

5.
CHARACTERISE
THE PROBLEM

4.
ESTABLISH
THE EXTENDED
BASELINE

3.
ESTABLISH
THE INITIAL
BASELINE

2.
RISK-BASED
PLANNING

1.
SET THE STRATEGIC
CONTEXT