Still, Johnston acknowledges that the design community is currently meeting the idea of DfMA with more fear than excitement.. “The old cookie-cutter buildings get trotted out as a reason not to do DfMA,” he says.

In all systems there are performance curves which demonstrate operational ranges where the most beneficial outcomes are achieved, these are always constrained at both ends.As density of traffic increase on a motorway, the volume throughput of cars.

and the car throughput spectacularly dives.commuters know all too well.If we take one or two paracetamol tablets our pain is lessened, ten and we suffer.

fatal liver damage.Too many cooks spoil the broth is a colloquial statement of the same system understanding..

In an area I know a little about.

and with a. degree of understanding of the economics.It afforded us a far greater level of stakeholder engagement and buy-in than we would typically achieve for a one-off design (see below).

This resulted in, for example, designs that were highly optimised in terms of layouts, space allocation, adjacencies and functional flows – which could then be deployed across the PETP programme and wider prison estate.It creates further efficiencies.

For example, the standard building types can be used across a range of sites.For each, the site-specific design activities can be focused on the placement of the buildings relative to each other, arranging orientation to minimise overlooking and overheating (for both the comfort of prisoners and to reduce energy use), maximise views of landscape, and so on.