Where materials can be reused, these should be considered for reuse on the same or a local site, thereby reducing material miles and facilitating a more sustainable construction process.
Unlike the 2D plans and PDF documents currently in use, BIM and digital technology enable applicants to segment their designs, making this possible and less prone to mistakes.. Ricketts says that next steps will revolve around using the Gateway One process that’s come out of the Hackitt Report and the Building Safety Bill, and will involve extracting and digitising important fire safety information from architecture and engineering models.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.When trying to accelerate a product to market, it’s important not to tie things down too early.
Unexpected things often happen in development, which affect the outcome.It’s important to stay flexible.
Using Chips enabled the success of the Parma project, and structural modelling also enabled design simplification and a quicker timescale.The project was completed in just 18 months and awarded ISPE facility of the year.. We also successfully created something we called a Factory in a Box pharmaceutical facility.
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