Good things happen when manufacturing expertise and contractor experience inform design decisions. Our design and engineering services enhance coordination and accountability while minimizing on-site delays. The result is more efficient operations and shortened schedules.
Make informed design decisions by aligning your team’s vision with production methods, materials, and installation strategies. Prefabrication expertise and key trade contractors are integrated early to provide constructability insight, technical guidance, and cost feedback before drawings are finalized.
The ultimate goal is to align design intent with real-world manufacturing and construction methods. Design teams maintain overall design responsibility, but their decisions are informed by those who have direct construction and installation knowledge. These inputs reduce redesign and rework while improving coordination and efficiency.
DIRTT’s design approach optimizes every component for production, installation, and adaptability. Design for manufacturing, assembly, and disassembly (DfMA/DfD) improves quality and precision to ensure smooth installation and adaptability when your needs change.
By manufacturing components in our state-of-the-art facilities, we accomplish several things. First, more work is shifted into a controlled and safe environment. Second, on-site noise, deliveries, and disruption are kept to a minimum. The approach also enables disassembly and reuse of components so changing needs can be easily accommodated.
One of the greatest benefits is that DIRTT manufacturing shortens project timelines. Installation can begin even as components needed for later stages are being manufactured. This maximizes efficiency and minimizes costs.
Projects with complex scopes require an innovative approach to meet performance criteria while not exceeding the budget or timeline. Specialty engineering and delegated design speeds up approvals, reduces risk, and ensures accuracy.
In short, engineering and design work flows to the most qualified person. Design of specific components or systems is delegated from the architect to professionals with experience in those areas. Our licensed structural engineers save customers time through expedited stamping and sealing of drawings.
Consolidating these technical processes results in faster approvals, reduced risk, and smoother workflows. It also ensures that your performance criteria, compliance standards, and timelines are met.
Solving a problem in a digital model is far simpler and less stressful than fixing it during construction. Building information modelling (BIM) identifies clashes before construction. These conflicts can then be resolved in the model rather than on the job site where problem-solving can be costly.
Integrating all project elements into a comprehensive digital model fosters collaboration, improves coordination, and smooths workflows. The model serves as a central point for designers, fabricators, and contractors, which streamlines project workflow from start to finish.
BIM integrates all project models into a comprehensive digital twin before manufacturing. This guarantees that prefabricated modular components—even those with tight tolerances—fit together as designed. Jobs face minimal on-site modifications and delays. BIM also generates detailed and accurate shop drawings, bills of material, and unique component identifiers.