In 2012 we won the Best Patient Experience Award for Circle Reading at the Building Better Healthcare awards.. Hospital Design for flexibility and change.
It’s good that people talk about construction tech – that creates an environment broadly open to tech – but that’s not the same as being able to actually use it..In our team, we only ever apply technology when it is appropriate to the problem at hand.
We have never, for example, had to use a Machine Learning solution, because we’ve never had a problem that it’s been the right technology for..Nor do we think that the future of robotics in construction is in building robots to do jobs that we, or they, shouldn’t be doing in the first place.Technology is not fairy dust that you sprinkle onto a problem to sort it out.
You need to assess the entire process and engage actively with technology to see where – or whether – it will add value.You also have to be open to the very real possibility that its use may fundamentally alter that process for the better.As an industry, we have to get better at creating and sharing data, information and learning.
At the moment, we just don’t do that well enough.
We have the computing and processing infrastructure to do amazing things with data in the built environment sector, but we have to create it, share it – and use it.. We’re big believers in open source.This idea, of course, would need further collaboration across the DC ecosystem.. To bring the session to a close, there was a round-up of the issues and barriers that need to be solved in the short term.
How to deal with irregular site design, different business drivers and limitations of template designs.How to do the above and meet acceptable price points.
How to find sites with reliable power.How to shorten overall programme durations.