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Once all the stakeholders can understand and visualise the connections, designing a physical space unfolds.

It’s worth stressing again that standardisation in construction is not a negative, and it’s not unique to platform design either.We’ve found that most clients want a certain level of standardisation.

The Department for Education knows exactly what the best performing teaching space looks like.Most residential developers have a pattern book of apartments, which are best suited for their needs.They don’t want to design from scratch each time.

Standardisation makes future maintenance easier.Where clients want the variability and flexibility is in the massing of the building, the articulation of the material choice and facade design.. We worked very hard with clients in the early stages to make sure that the construction Platforms we developed have enough variability in the areas which will facilitate maximum benefit.

We want to have a Design to Value process which achieves exactly what is desired..

Tier 1 and the supply chain.These things are risks to an industry worried about profit margins, business and retaining current clients.

As such, we see that it’s simultaneously an easy thing to do, and a very difficult one.Toyota, who are fantastic at lean manufacturing, welcome competitors to look at their processes.

They realise that it's not just about understanding the how, because what Toyota are doing requires a different mindset, a different set of ambitions.Without those things, understanding the process won’t help..