This has delivered a huge body of evidence in terms of how platform design (P-DfMA) can unlock industrialised construction..

We can achieve this through the reduction of raw materials, excavation and construction works, but also through shortened construction programme, which limits overhead and prelim costs, as well as creating a path towards more sustainable construction.. Low operational carbon.Alongside developing the architectural design to reduce the overall building volume, we should adopt passive design measures, such as considering building orientation, using optimised facades to balance winter heat loss and summer heat gain, enhancing daylight and using natural or mixed mode ventilation.

These sustainable building measures will reduce the MEP plant loads so that plant takes less space; reducing the building volume further.It will also result in reduced energy consumption in use, as well as reducing the capital cost of MEP systems.. To make sure we use the most appropriate passive sustainable design measures, we test them for optimum results using computer simulations.This means we know far more about how a building is due to operate than we ever have before.

We can fine tune the building to make it run as efficiently as possible before it is even built, making further energy cost savings..Sustainable design and build for the circular economy.

We shouldn’t stop at lowering embodied and operational carbon when creating low carbon, sustainable buildings.

A building’s impact starts before the building exists and carries on past the end of its useful life, as part of the circular economy.Jack Ricketts, a planner at London Borough of Southwark, doesn’t want to see the planning process holding others back.

While working on projects funded by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Ricketts sought to avoid the possibility of duplicating work, or becoming an accidental blocker to the process.He reached out to industry expert Miranda Sharp for help in making a shift towards digital data.

Sharp’s company, Metis Digital, works with a range of companies trying to connect technical assets and data to value.During her time working with the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) on the National Digital Twin Programme (NDTp), Sharp sought secure and resilient ways of connecting digital twins to deliver the common good, and looked for real examples of people trying to connect data in order to tackle cross-silo issues.