You’ll also need to look at reducing the quantity of materials and their transportation distances, as well as other similar considerations.. IP: What one piece of advice would you give to an architecture student about how to deliver sustainable design?.
Adopting more open source methods, perhaps akin to Wikipedia, could offer a solution.For example, Highways England is currently transforming the.
Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB).into a new form, aiming to set the standard for engineering documents in the digital future.This could present an interesting model.. Another example where UK construction has excelled in this regard is with BIM.
In the UK, our view and understanding of BIM is incredibly robust and widespread.As such, UK BIM standards are now becoming the de facto international standard.
ISO 19650, the international standard for managing the whole life cycle of a built asset using building information modelling (BIM), contains all the same principles and high level requirements as the UK BIM framework, and has been extremely well received as it has rolled out overseas.
Some interesting moves in the sector could also be triggered by The Construction Leadership Council and Construction Industry Council, ensuring that UK construction has the international profile it richly deserves.. Construction standards: from BRE to ISO and The Construction Playbook.The most important thing during these initial workshops is to keep an open mind.
Rather than tabling a design solution too early and possibly forcing the conversation to a preconceived solution, we encourage stakeholders to speak freely about what matters to them.Through structured questioning and diagramming on flipcharts and whiteboards (or their digital equivalents), we turn those concerns and desires into clear objectives.
The aim is to ensure that all stakeholders understand each other’s drivers and that we develop an agreed set of objectives that everyone feels is comprehensive and fair.. We turn that knowledge into an initial, digital model.The model captures all the systems and their interfaces, and represents all aspects of the overall solution that affect the objectives of the various stakeholders.
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