Digitising planning | Jack Ricketts, Principal Planning Officer, Southwark Council, and Miranda Sharp, National Digital Twin Programme at the Centre for Digital Built Britain. Part 2 of 2.

The Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) approach that we have in Bryden Wood – which is embedded in Creative Technologies – means that something like generative design can be more powerful, as it can be built around design rules and content that’s inherently more clearly defined..

This may become critical as the sustainability spotlight increasingly shines on these energy consumers..Some companies are exploring an industrial synergy with food production using low grade heat and heat pumps, but this is in early development..

Digitising planning | Jack Ricketts, Principal Planning Officer, Southwark Council, and Miranda Sharp, National Digital Twin Programme at the Centre for Digital Built Britain. Part 2 of 2.

The feeling in the room was that, due to the regulations, Europe is pricing itself out of the general market – although due to data sovereignty a market will be retained.. Generally, green energy is more expensive, which also distorts the market.But programmes like the Bernwick bank 4-GigaWatt wind farm may ease the UK situation in the longer term..Although self-generated power looks like a silver bullet, bought utilities are significantly cheaper than those self-generated.

Digitising planning | Jack Ricketts, Principal Planning Officer, Southwark Council, and Miranda Sharp, National Digital Twin Programme at the Centre for Digital Built Britain. Part 2 of 2.

These pressing needs are making self-generation and nuclear a more likely option.. Fusion as well as fission is being discussed, but what is a realistic timescale?.The group felt that DCs need to be part of regional, city, utility, industrial and energy strategies.

Digitising planning | Jack Ricketts, Principal Planning Officer, Southwark Council, and Miranda Sharp, National Digital Twin Programme at the Centre for Digital Built Britain. Part 2 of 2.

Joined up thinking may improve the situation and help to find a path forward..

Discussion in the room moved to nuclear self-generation for a while and how far we are away from viable small nuclear power self-generation.When these documents were published, I commented that they would both be enablers of an ‘Amazon for construction’.

Using ‘Amazon’ was meant as shorthand for some form of digital marketplace.to advance construction procurement methods.

, not a suggestion of a perfect model to follow, but it prompted an interesting debate..It is partly with that debate in mind that I think we should discuss what e-commerce may look like when applied to construction.