The Construction Innovation Hub: Build Back Better

The goal extends beyond simply replacing what was lost; it's an opportunity to build back better, creating more resilient infrastructure, sustainable communities, and a modern, forward-looking Ukraine through innovative design and strategic planning.. Watch Navigating the Energy Debate: Challenges and Solutions with Martin Wood, Adrian La Porta and John Dyson.If we had to crystallize to an extractable conclusion from this fascinating discussion, it would be that clear regulation and guidance, with clarity about the long-term evolving economics and more deliberate and extensive collaboration are what will most strongly drive and facilitate industry to address the solvent dilemma..

Once the designs of architects and engineers are submitted to the local planning authority, all of that design, modelling, information and data, is, in a sense, dumbed down.It’s turned back into 2D plans and some PDF documents.

Much of the valuable information is lost because councils can’t consume the 3D designs and BIM models created by architects and engineers.. From this point, the information goes to the local planning authority.While they’re good at interpreting it, things can take a long time depending on the size of the development.Ricketts says he’s spent time with case officers who’ve spent two days with a calculator trying to work out daylight sunlight calculations and viability.

He points out that these people didn’t go into planning to do those things.They went into planning to do the subjective work, and to do the planning..

While working on the Reducing Invalid Planning Applications project (RIPA), Ricketts began to map all of the legislation and planning policy, turning it into rules-based code.

He wondered whether it could be used to map against BIM models, in order to extract all of the relevant information that planners need to assess and develop a decision.Algorithmic design.

– we use different algorithms to suit different patterns, but we are cautious.Algorithmic processes can be complex and not easy to understand, so we look for moments of intervention within processes that allow people to interfere and hopefully understand the process.

(And we document everything!).– we don’t exist in a bubble, so we join our design automation tech to other systems and platforms so as not to duplicate functionality where it already exists, or ‘centralise’ either data or process.