P-DfMA Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly

But we could make the money spent on hospital design and construction go further – about 30% further, in fact.. Our most recent major healthcare architecture project opened at the beginning of September 2020 in Edgbaston, UK.

Creating standardised data or the means of standardising existing data across the planning process will enable us to automate those elements which are machine-readable (eg to assess whether standard information supplied by the architect/designer is complete and compliant), and then transparent decision-making by planners.(And by extension – this can encompass building control, health and safety and other types of compliance checking.).

This degree of automation will not remove the requirement for human judgement and discretion in planning decisions.The purpose of digitisation is to facilitate the process by reducing the burden on those people of large amounts of admin and tedious, repetitive tasks that can be done better by machines than humans.. Benefits for architects:.A digitised planning process will involve a change in the way architects are required to produce some information on their designs, and it will enforce a rigour and consistency in the technical elements of designs (which does not imply or require any constraint on creativity).

This is not a huge departure, however: rigour in approach is good practice, and the information required is already largely included in BIM models..The most significant change for architects will be to free up large chunks of their time to devote to the creative part of their work, which is where they can add the most value (and which is why they became architects in the first place)..

Better information for planning officers:.

As for architects, digitisation is about giving them access to more and better information on which to base their decisions, and creating more time in which to make them.This creates a reduction in running costs - heating and lighting.

In other words, we create a virtuous circle of benefit.. What is the future of the construction industry?.Ultimately, we suspect that over time buildings will become flexible configurations of components, rather than large, fixed assets.

We may end up creating loose-fit superstructures.The superstructure contains the majority of the embodied carbon in a building.