We realised that the manufacturing component of the construction process could be taught to serving prisoners, helping to train them in marketable skills for use on release, and aiding rehabilitation.
Even the steps on the journey, as focus on interoperability, data standards and consistent specifications, would help accelerate the digital shift that is already underway.There is plenty to think about, but I hope we can continue the debate and, together, create the common vision that will add a whole new dimension to our journey of transformation.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach and Modern Methods of Construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.
http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesA hospital is many things.A place of anxiety and relief, illness and joy.But also a place of catering, deliveries, laundry and car parking..
It must be as efficient as possible, and house some of the most advanced technology in the world, and yet feel human and welcoming.And whatever else it is today, we know that it may need to be something very different – although we don’t know what – in just a few months’ time..
The opportunity within healthcare design and build is to address all of these competing value drivers successfully.
This is the essence of our core approach – design to value.. Our overarching aim is to deliver a beautiful building which achieves excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety and user experience, savings in cost and carbon, precision in budget and timescales, and flexibility to allow for future developments, planned and not.. A holistic approach to healthcare.Creating standardised data or the means of standardising existing data across the planning process will enable us to automate those elements which are machine-readable (eg to assess whether standard information supplied by the architect/designer is complete and compliant), and then transparent decision-making by planners.
(And by extension – this can encompass building control, health and safety and other types of compliance checking.).This degree of automation will not remove the requirement for human judgement and discretion in planning decisions.
The purpose of digitisation is to facilitate the process by reducing the burden on those people of large amounts of admin and tedious, repetitive tasks that can be done better by machines than humans.. Benefits for architects:.A digitised planning process will involve a change in the way architects are required to produce some information on their designs, and it will enforce a rigour and consistency in the technical elements of designs (which does not imply or require any constraint on creativity).