At two thirds of the whole life carbon, embodied carbon is critically important within an office building.
Better information for planning officers:.As for architects, digitisation is about giving them access to more and better information on which to base their decisions, and creating more time in which to make them.
Making these decisions is why people become planners in the first place..If architects are using 3D models, why would planners use 2D drawings and not those models?When daylight tracking is measurable and predictable (if complex), why would planners be checking the architects’ sums, armed with a calculator, when a ‘digital app’ could do this more efficiently?
Why are planners (and the public) expected to engage with idealised and unrealistic CGI images of proposed developments that they cannot adjust, interrogate or control?Digitisation would make it possible to view proposed developments in their context, that any user could control and view from any angle.. Planning applications and the public:.
The more accessible a planning application can be made, the easier it can be interpreted.
By making it more understandable it will enable greater levels of public engagement.We can operate at a scale and speed that most can’t.. With the digital platforms we have developed within the Creative Technologies team at Bryden Wood, we have, and will increase, the ability to be agile, and to design a built environment that is agile too.
We can help developers, planners and government Design to Value.. What we can’t do is change the way services are typically bought, provided and contracted for.But we’ve seen approaches over the last few months that have stripped away barriers and taken a direct and pragmatic approach to procurement, when speed of delivery is the priority.
This is progress and again, it shows it can be done.. Another thing we can’t do is decide for clients what value is most important to them.But by making it easy to understand the possibilities, and show solutions that can be quick to implement and agile enough to change quickly when necessary, I think we can help people come to the right decisions..
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