Construction product platforms provide the opportunity to improve productivity in construction projects while maintaining heterogeneity of output. The growing literature on construction product platforms describes how product suppliers develop product platforms either top-down or bottom-up, independently from project delivery. Through a single case study of a consultancy firm, this paper shows how a specialist consultancy firm operating in the construction sector developed their own product platform on projects while iteratively developing and augmenting their delivery capabilities. Distinguishing between activity integration, coordination, and consolidation, the platform development process highlights how vertical and horizontal consolidation of capabilities within the engineering phase of delivery enables early resolution of both product and process specifications. This means that vertical coordination between engineering and manufacturing phases can be managed by a fully specified contract, rather than acquisition. The analysis of the case shows how construction can be more closely aligned with the linear and sequential models found in manufacturing through clarifying and distinguishing the roles of engineering, manufacturing, finishing and sub-assembly.
基于市场的减缓气候变化机制以及基于生物多样性的产品和服务贸易为各国保护森林和投资于低碳排放途径以实现可持续发展提供了机会。减少碳排放可以通过REDD+来实现，减少毁林和森林退化造成的排放，同时促进森林及其森林碳储量的保护和可持续管理。另一方面，在贸发会议生物贸易倡议下开展工作的国家正在捕捉到生物多样性带来的环境和社会公平产品和服务的积极市场趋势。后者促进以生物多样性为基础的部门的贸易和投资，以此实现非洲、亚洲和拉丁美洲21个国家的可持续发展。
