"**DEFINITIONS** **Concept-design:** Design team's initial response to the project-brief. **Detailed-design** (or developed-design**):** Process of developing approved concept-design in detail **SUMMARY** Current construction methods are slow, costly, of poor-quality and relatively unsafe. Compared to manufacturing-industry, construction-industry's poor-productivity has cost UK-economy £100billion over the past 20-years (Mace,2018) and extra £40bn in tax. Its poor work -quality cost £1bn--£2bn worth of reworks annually (RIBA,2008). Clearly, the current methods cannot help to achieve UK's national-infrastructure-programme, which is calling for £650-billion worth of projects by 2025\. To achieve similar gains to the manufacturing-industry, the construction-industry is attempting to switch to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA). DfMA trial-projects have led to a reduction of 60%, 44% and 70%+ in construction-programme-time, cost and onsite-labour respectively. They brought about 73% improvement in quality and 80% improvement in overall productivity-rate compared to 20% normally achieved with traditional-method (RIBA,2008). Despite the many gains, efforts towards wider-adoption of DfMA-approach has been unsuccessful with less than 5% of building-designers employing the DfMA-approach. Research by Chartered-Institute-of-Building and AECOM show the lack of adoption to be because current designers were trained/taught to design-for-construction and have practised this method for long. Attempts to use CPD-trainings have met resistance due to lack of time. This project thus aims to use digital-means to encourage a wider-adoption of DfMA-approach and active-energy-technologies (AET) by developing a BIM-software-plugin that automatically generates DfMA-concept-designs with AET based on key building-design-parameters from client/project brief (e.g. material choice, building-use/purpose, etc.) The proposed plugin will use Internet-of-Things, Blockchain-Technology, cloud-computing, artificial-intelligence and big-data-analytics and include the following: 1)**Automatic DfMA-with-AET concept-design-generator** which will generate multiple concept-designs based on the input-parameters. **It will be able to generate DfMA alone, or DfMA-with-AET, concept designs.** Designs will be editable to achieve 'detailed-design' to suit designers' preference. Designs will be generated using: a) Parametric-modelling-artificial-intelligence-algorithms which will use historic-data of former DfMA-designs with AET to produce new-solutions b)Generative-design-artificial-intelligence-algorithm improve new-solutions, producing many valid high-performance but cost-effective options. 2)**DfMA-and-AET-component-adviser** which will suggest components (e.g. lattice slab with special connectors, shell beams etc.) that can be used to edit an adopted DfMA concept-design to achieve detailed-design that suits designers' preference. 3)**DfMA-and-AET-component-availability-and-price-checker** which can provide information on DfMA and AET components prices, delivery times, suppliers (location, reliability, etc), near real-time availability, stock-levels etc. 4)**DfMA-designs-comparison-tool** which can compare two or more generated/edited design based on total cost, estimated build duration, probable safety issues, quality of build, energy consumption, etc."