Design to Value - our driving principle
We shouldn’t stop at lowering embodied and operational carbon when creating low carbon, sustainable buildings.
We need to keep things simple as we work out how to achieve our goals, and the meaning of digital twin is simply a digital representation of a real thing.. Now, by real, we don’t necessarily mean physical.Sharp explains that the digital representation of a train timetable is just as important as the digital representation of a train itself, each providing important, but different, information.. Further, when we use digital twin technology there should always be a two-way interaction between the digital twin and the real thing.
The digital twin is used for simulation and experimentation, while the real-world thing provides feedback that can be used to affect the digital world.It’s possible that a digital twin could be real time, but it’s not a requirement.Sharp explains that thorough investigation of historic data is more important.
In other words, do the lights always go down when it rains?Analysis of this type of pattern data is just as likely to help us achieve higher performing services as real time data.. Data and The National Digital Twin.
As such, the National Digital Twin isn’t meant to be a one-to-one map of everything.
The aim is to keep the data as close to the creator as possible, and to keep the creator in control.This is the essence of our core approach – design to value.. Our overarching aim is to deliver a beautiful building which achieves excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety and user experience, savings in cost and carbon, precision in budget and timescales, and flexibility to allow for future developments, planned and not.. A holistic approach to healthcare.
Every project starts with a brief, of course.A clear brief allows for the design to be checked continuously as it evolves.
Our approach to developing a brief is to place it firmly in the context of being a part of the process which ends with a fully functioning hospital.The brief cannot – or should not – exist in splendid isolation.