Stages of information transfer in design and construction.
A digitised planning process will involve a change in the way architects are required to produce some information on their designs, and it will enforce a rigour and consistency in the technical elements of designs (which does not imply or require any constraint on creativity).This is not a huge departure, however: rigour in approach is good practice, and the information required is already largely included in BIM models..
The most significant change for architects will be to free up large chunks of their time to devote to the creative part of their work, which is where they can add the most value (and which is why they became architects in the first place)..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?We also had a tantalising glimpse of what car-free cities look like and, better yet, sound and smell like (even if things went back to how they were pretty quickly).. We know it can be done.
We’ve seen that in some circumstances we can deliver change, really quickly.The question now is, what are we going to do next?.
Construction technology: Building with agility and building agility in.In the Creative Technologies team at Bryden Wood, we’ve been working for some time with Highways England on smart motorways.