Professor John Dyson spent more than 25 years at GlaxoSmithKline, eventually ending his career as VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Design, where he focussed on developing a long-term strategic approach to asset management..

It takes a few days to do what used to take months..This approach – harnessing wide-ranging data, applying it creatively, iterating rapidly – can be applied in any number of other contexts, and we are currently working on several initiatives that need rapid implementation in the post-COVID world.

Watch this space.. It’s all about agility; the ability to plan and respond to changing circumstances in complex situations.But agility can’t simply be reactive.We have to design it into our built environment.

Future-proofing is no longer about thinking how we might repurpose a building in twenty years’ time.The question now is how we allow for changes that may well cycle round in a matter of months..

In a world where everyone may need to work from home, what does that mean for designing and building flats and houses?

If every occupant has to have the space, power and connectivity to work effectively?This efficiency is made possible by using P-DfMA (Platforms approach to design for manufacture and assembly) to optimise the use of materials whilst minimising the construction programme and limiting construction waste.

Cundall, an engineering and sustainability consultancy, has produced an independent comparison of the embodied carbon between the traditional and P-DfMA designs, and found a 19.4%* reduction in embodied carbon per m. 2. in the P-DfMA design, a 36.4% carbon reduction in the substructure and a 20.21% reduction in the superstructure and facade..The platform approach is cost-effective, available to everyone and will play a vital role in reducing the construction industry’s emissions and moving the industry towards the goal of net zero greenhouse gasses by 2050.. Read our.

on our P-DfMA approach.The LETI guides are available to download.