What are the benefits of reference design?
Describing the needs of all of the stakeholders in a project leads to a ‘problem statement’.
These must be stored and distributed, and appropriate safety systems installed.In some cases this can be relatively simple, while other gasses (e.g.
vaporised liquid nitrogen which is used in cryogenics, or oxygen which is used in bioreactors) can be very problematic – especially on upper-floors or where labs neighbour office tenancies.. 6.Planning.. Planning Permission & other approvals may be required despite ‘office to lab’ Permitted Development rights..In the UK, offices can be converted into labs without needing Planning Permission since they now fall under the same ‘Use Class.’ This includes facilities used for “research and development of products or processes,” “industrial processes,” or the “provision of medical or health services.”.
There are of course caveats, and there may be other Planning or legal conditions to consider or parties to notify.An office to lab conversion also cannot be detrimental to the amenity of residential areas (e.g.
noise, vibration, fumes), and this may still require demonstration via CFD or noise modelling.
Appointment of a Planning Consultant and application for a Certificate of Lawfulness is often advisable..Integrated Project Delivery promotes a high level of collaboration and shared commercial reward so that stakeholders are incentivised to work together in a better way.
There’s no room for finger-pointing because all problems are for everyone to solve.The role of the IPD team is to raise problems up, work out the best solution, and execute that as efficiently as possible.. 5.
Generative design is the game-changer for the next ten years.Now that we’ve stabilised the DfMA platform and the capability to visualise solutions, the ability to go from concept to fabrication much more quickly and to benefit from generative design will bring huge opportunities for the future.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.