This project has been a collaboration between the London Borough of Southwark, the Centre for Digital Built Britain, Bryden Wood and 3DRepo.. Benefits of a digitised planning process.
A key aspect of a Platforms approach to design is the notion that we standardise at component level, but allow complete freedom at asset level.A standardised kit of parts, coupled with the use of machines to eliminate repetitive tasks, will give architects and designers more time to spend exploring outcomes and adding value.
This will, in turn, allow them to create refined, client-specific designs which are every bit as aesthetically pleasing and unique as buildings designed by traditional methods.We also believe there will be a shift in where we think creativity is best placed within the architectural process.Our Creative Technologies team - the vast majority of whom are architects - know that developing the algorithm and computational design is as much a part of the creative design process as sketching something.. M for Manufacture in DfMA: The move to a manufacturing mindset.
We have already seen our PRiSM to Platforms digital workflow deliver tremendous improvements to the procurement and payment process.As soon as we have a design we like, we can instantly generate a data model.
This information gives us all the bill of materials quantities we’ll need for the project, and from this data set we can also create the BIM models (ie.
the BIM model is one ‘view’ of the data set, not the other way round).The Supply Chain and SMEs.
At Bryden Wood we’re starting to see a real surge of interest from lower tiers of the supply chain, which supports the idea that one major benefit of all of this will be that we'll unlock SMEs in a way that probably hasn't been done before.In other words, the disintermediation will start to bear significant fruit.
While the Tier One role is likely to see the biggest change and will probably face the biggest challenge ahead in terms of evolving their mindsets and positions for the future models, the SMEs might be doing more of what they do, but better and more consistently.SMEs make up a massive portion of the industry, with significant diversity, and we’ll probably also start seeing disruptors in this space as well..