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TIP 2: Will there be a future mandate?.

This has meant the discussion misses key challenges regarding what schemes are providing, or lacking, in terms of the economic and social value in architecture.. Part of the difficulty in embedding this design quality throughout the design process may be a result of the fragmentation of projects into stages, and the atomisation of roles in recent decades.Individuals are often responsible only for small chunks of the process and wider design, with little collaboration between parties.

It is therefore important to look at how to bridge these gaps across disciplines..The ‘triple bottom line’ of sustainability.In the early 1980s, the theorist Freer Spreckley first identified the concept that sustainable development could be realised through identifying and balancing environmental and social outcomes against economic benefits.

This ‘triple bottom line’ of sustainability, as it is now known, underpins the corporate policy of organisations around the world.. To enable clarity on the desired outcomes of design, design value can be separated into a series of value types.The ‘triple bottom line’, as identified by Carmona et al., is a sum of environmental, economic, and social values, and is one of the most used methods of grouping value types in governmental strategies, such as HM Treasury’s Green Book (UKGov, 2018) guidance; the means by which the UK government assesses cost benefits in appraisal and evaluation processes..

While there is a growing variety of measures used to assess the environmental impact of projects (such as embodied carbon and operational energy), and economic value is frequently used as the central justification of projects, there is no agreed metric for assessing social value in architecture and in the impact of projects.. Social value in the UK: establishing benefits of good design.

The social impact of developments on communities and the way they are designed are gaining traction as key metrics in UK government policy.Repurposing Coal: how a P-DfMA approach will help coal-fired power stations fight climate change.

Bryden Wood unveils digital platform for decarbonising electricity production by 2050Above - in this video, Architecture Director Steven Tilkin describes Bryden Wood's approach to designing a new type of prison [image MoJ].. An innovative approach from an innovative Ministry.The cycle of re-offending is a huge cost to the UK economy.

A 2016 study of a group of offenders who re-offended within 12 months of release from prison estimated that the total economic and social cost of reoffending was £18.1 billion..The Prison Estate Transformation Programme (PETP) was a programme of 10,000 ‘new for old’ adult prison places across six sites (plus one new house block) at an estimated value £1.3 billion.