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The Building Safety Bill specifies that information must be held securely on a digital platform, and it’s much more sensible to start doing it now, rather than having to catch up later once it’s all gone through the paper-based planning system.The importance, value and scalability of digitising these building safety processes will be evident to everyone..
Sharing data for a better future.The possibility of digitising our built environment clearly holds the potential for a wide array of valuable benefits.Miranda Sharp has been working on a demonstrator project focused on information share between utility providers in order to facilitate better decision making.
She says that sharing data in this way could have a significant impact on our progress towards net zero.Another example is Gavin Stark’s Icebreaker One project, which seeks to improve efficiency in data sharing.
One challenge surrounding the issue is that bilateral sharing arrangements can actually create a significant amount of difficulty for other people.
Sharp says that what we really need is something more free-flowing, and adds that we should be nudging the market in the right direction as it develops so that we end up with an optimally connected set of systems..Factory in a Box is an excellent example of ways in which MMC can be used to meet quality requirements and diversify the workforce, whilst also substantially reducing costs and speeding up the construction process.
This project was a precursor to Bryden Wood’s innovative work with construction Platforms and P-DFMA..Process Design in COVID-19 vaccine development and modelling.
The importance of process engineering and Design to Value methodologies seem particularly relevant recently.As we’ve waited for a successful vaccine to emerge, there have been over 200 in development, all at different stages with different probabilities of success.