While density is increasing exponentially, cooling technology is not.
The laminated notices on lamp posts which inform the public of local planning applications can easily be missed or ignored, and are often hard to understand.We do not have the levels of informed, accessible, public engagement with planning that would benefit the process and the built environment.
Digitisation would open up new ways to engage the wider public at all stages of the planning process..The increasing digitisation of relevant information and data, and our ability to import that data into the planning process in meaningful ways will further help engagement.Well constructed visual representations make raw data accessible to a wide audience.
This will allow people to consider individual planning applications in broader contexts – of sustainability or social mobility, say – or understand the trade-offs and implications inherent in making changes to part of a development.Overall, it will mean the public can form and offer opinions based on rich and contextualised information, rather than on inaccessible and indigestible data and projects in isolation..
In other words, it will allow more people to engage in the right way at the right point in the planning process, accessing the right information and able to give the right kind of opinion.. Further, this will enable a holistic view; the ability to consider planning applications in relation to each other, in terms of design etc.
but also in terms of development and other targets, at borough, city, county, or national level..If we want to get into AI in construction, and even digital twins, we have to put the building blocks in place now.
Construction Platform design could accelerate the capture of data needed to make this a reality.. End of life: reuse and recycle built assets.When a built asset comes to the end of its life, a construction Platforms approach is appealing because it gives us sustainable options for redeployment and reuse.
Automatically knowing the provenance of a built asset allows us to get into a circular economy.Equally, we could also take components from one asset, and then use them for a different asset type in another part of the world.
(Editor: Stackable Juicers)