Or, you can download and read our e-book on Platforms.Earlier this year, the government announced that they would spend £2.7 billion on building hospitals.
Digitisation would open up new ways to engage the wider public at all stages of the planning process..The increasing digitisation of relevant information and data, and our ability to import that data into the planning process in meaningful ways will further help engagement.
Well constructed visual representations make raw data accessible to a wide audience.This will allow people to consider individual planning applications in broader contexts – of sustainability or social mobility, say – or understand the trade-offs and implications inherent in making changes to part of a development.Overall, it will mean the public can form and offer opinions based on rich and contextualised information, rather than on inaccessible and indigestible data and projects in isolation..
In other words, it will allow more people to engage in the right way at the right point in the planning process, accessing the right information and able to give the right kind of opinion.. Further, this will enable a holistic view; the ability to consider planning applications in relation to each other, in terms of design etc.but also in terms of development and other targets, at borough, city, county, or national level..
This is about understanding how to take information about one stage of an asset, and make it usable for another stage.
Our approach will generate a density of information that we can make use of throughout the design and build process (including planning) – and then beyond construction, into the operation of buildings and ultimately their end of life.Add in the Hub’s work on introducing APQP, and we will get a level of consistency into components, which will deliver a real benefit.
We believe having this greater provenance over our components addresses the question of warranties and insurance, and creates a much lower risk profile on a construction project.What’s more, the idea of pre-prototyping components before we get to site should mean there is very little left to learn.
Ultimately, this creates far fewer opportunities for snags and delays.. Reducing risk in construction and attracting investors.Changing the risk profile of construction should unlock investment into the industry.
(Editor: Heavy-Duty Mattresses)