This is analogous with use of configurators and Platforms – designers can put more effort into the project specific and value-adding design and less into the documentation of the ‘chassis’.. Can we do this?

These configurators rely on comprehensive data sets, organised in such a way as to be codified and machine-readable.The master planning approach described in this article can be seen as the data-gathering and organising part of digital master planning – the preparatory work which could lead, in this case, to a digital configurator for pharmaceutical facilities..

While the data we gather in master planning involves large amounts of human activity and processes, the outputs are all digital to some degree, and the entire process is digital in character, seeking to extract and organise data, so that at a later stage we can establish and apply rigorous rules.This is where Design to Value intersects with digital.. For master planning, this is an approach that is proven to deliver substantial benefit to clients, against a wide range of value drivers.The collaborative element is essential.

The distance travelled across a project is always impressive, and the destination is rarely what the client imagined it would be at the outset – but it is always better.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesComplex HVAC requirements at Illumina.

Illumina is a high-tech company, based in the USA but with a very large UK presence.

We first met Illumina because they were building their new UK HQ – a very large laboratory building – on Quanta Park, where we were already active.There’s a lot of things closing in on the space that's creating a lot of dissatisfaction, and the people who have the money are the most dissatisfied - the big end-users, the big governments…”.

Around the world, she says, business restarts want three things: digitisation, industrialised construction, and sustainability (mostly in the form of understanding carbon).Ultimately, these things are all related to the issue of productisation in construction.. Construction waste makes up 40% of our landfills, Marks says, adding that this happens because we’re changing things and cutting them after the fact.. A switch to industrialised construction, with an industry deploying manufacturing processes, would be highly beneficial to the issue of sustainability in construction.. Marks also invites us to consider the ancillary benefits of creating a factory: a workforce composed of diverse ages and populations, economic sustainability for that factory around the world, social sustainability, industry sustainability (because the construction workforce is an aging population) and, of course, environmental sustainability.. She highlights the level of current dissatisfaction and the focus on our planet - our dwindling supply of resources: people, things, and materials.. “We can’t all live on this planet unless we get better at this,” Marks says.

“That’s what’s actually changing this.People are making that connection.