How Can Value be Reinstated in the Built Environment? Excerpt 2 from 'Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology.'
The move from air-cooled to liquid-cooled solutions is key.
contact us directlyDigitising planning to benefit people and the built environment: enabling a digital environment for development, from design, through planning, to construction..The aim of this project is to create an environment in which a seamless, end-to-end digitised development process can operate and flourish.
Our purpose is to demonstrate in a very real and everyday context how data can be made fair and open to the widest range of uses and users, while delivering a wealth of benefits, as a result of a digitised planning process, that are both immediate and long-lasting..The idea behind this concept is not to develop a single digital planning product.This project can generate more benefit by remaining open and accessible to a range of collaborators.
Nor is our aim to start from scratch or reinvent the wheel - we are using the data that is already created through the use of BIM, and existing formats for sharing it..The planning process in the UK touches all of our lives.
It is integral to the way in which the built environment develops around us; affecting where we live, where we work, where we eat, shop and play, how we walk, cycle and drive, how we produce, manufacture, generate, store, dispose and recycle.
And yet the system we use has not changed since the 1940s.We link in with the people who understand the development processes, and look at the physicality of the supply chains.
We look at what is likely to happen, the capacity different countries have to make different vaccines, and how such factors would affect the global supply.Understanding the picture in this way allows us to make decisions at an early stage about what we might do, should certain circumstances arise.
In this instance, we could decide in advance how we might react to a vaccine becoming available, and get it out to people quickly.. As the Factory in a Box project demonstrated, there are elements which are standardised across projects.For example, they all need hygienic spaces, so we can make sure the hygienic components will be available regardless of the situation with projects.