Developing a solution through iteration.
There is little use in just trying much harder at doing the same things.We need to pause, reflect on our purpose, try to see different perspectives, different routes forward; bring light to our present.. We need to try different things, do things in different ways, make new connections.. A few weeks ago I was involved in a conversation about pharmaceuticals.
Many of the drugs we take are synthesised ultimately from oil or use significant amounts of fossil fuels to produce.Agricultural, paper and wastewater industries dispose of significant amounts of carbon-based compounds which could be the feedstocks for these drug substances.Creating new connections between industries that work largely independently could have a significant impact on the sustainability of the pharmaceutical industry.
This different perspective is exciting.Bryden Wood is supporting this idea, and many others, that will be part of the change in approach we need..
Doing things differently, letting go of what we have known either in Christmas traditions or any other traditions, or processes and procedures we follow, or the pre-judgements we hold onto can feel hard.
Humankind became dominant through its adaptability, our neo-cortex in our brains is incredibly plastic and moulds to allow us to adapt our whole life.Despite the availability of the technology since the 1980s, the construction industry has been much slower to apply these methods; most likely due to the nature of building design, with one-time projects using many unique elements and few repeatable processes.. Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is a method of modelling a system by evaluating a series of activities at the time they occur, or by evaluation at set points in time (every second, for example) with no change assumed to have occurred between the time steps.
This type of simulation is well suited for activity-based operational modelling where the complexity of continuous simulation is not required.. DES is typically used to understand and improve the performance of a system, in the research and development or design phase, or for processes already in operation..Bringing the construction industry up to speed with DES.
Research in the sector has found that while construction-related spending is 13% of global GDP, productivity has been flat for decades – with an ageing workforce and additional post-Brexit losses affecting the UK.Similarly, construction accounts for a large portion of global waste and carbon emissions, but is yet to see large improvements.
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