Product platform rulebook
The Product Platform Rulebook (Edition 1.2 March 2023), is an open-access guide to support industry – clients, consultants, contractors, manufacturers and product suppliers – in building capability and capacity to develop and deploy product platforms to meet demand.
Published by the Construction Innovation Hub (and authored by Akerlof, Atkins and Mott Macdonald), the rulebook aims to:
- Educate: to provide an introduction to the principles of product platforms
- Empower: to provide a framework that guides, supports and empowers those seeking to develop and/or deploy product platforms
- Enable: to establish rules, principles and a framework that support consistent development and deployment of product platforms, stimulating the potential for cross-platform harmonisation and cultivating market capacity to respond to an aggregated pipeline.
The rulebook provides an outline of the principles of product platforms, what they are and the benefits they can bring in the construction sector, a set of rules and principles that should be followed in order to develop a valid product platform, guidance for those wanting to develop a product platform, recommendations for government and industry and best pratice examples of how product platforms have been applied in practice.
The release of the Product Platform Rulebook was also supported by additional materials, not least The Value of Platforms (a value assessment of platforms), Platfoms in the Wild (details of how platforms are applied by Tier 1 contractors) and Platforms in Healthcare (a review of platforms in the Healthcare sector)
See also: Platform approach to construction.
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