And crucially, they provide the common language for communication between all the different people involved in executing that project..

The more information we have, the better outcomes we’ll be able to achieve.. Impacting the future with digitisation and MMC.Another potential benefit of digitising the built environment will be a positive impact on the use of modern methods of construction.

Above all else, developers are looking for certainty and speed.Sharing data across the design, engineering, planning and construction elements of development will enable us to push and promote modern methods of construction with all of the associated sustainability and energy benefits.When design and planning happen more quickly, people will want to see construction happen faster too.

MMC won’t need to be enforced, developers will come on board willingly because MMC will provide much quicker outcomes, with much greater levels of certainty.Ultimately, when we make MMC and design for precision manufacturing the default option, we’ll be able to make better homes for people.. At Bryden Wood we’re currently working on the New Hospitals Programme, which is the first real enactment of the Construction Playbook.

Within the lifetime of that programme, we hope to have fundamentally changed the way physical building is done, the way we use MMC, and the way we deliver assets.

Such a success would pave the way for P-DfMA and other MMC methodologies to be rolled out across other social infrastructure, including schools, social housing and more.We have also created an algorithmic, computational design system called Rapid Engineering Model (REM) for Highways England.

REM enables the early design stages of Smart Motorways Programme (SMP) schemes to be designed automatically.In addition, we’ve devised a similar, digital framework for Network Rail.

This variety of uses demonstrates the broad capabilities of these digital design tools, which are beneficial not only for buildings, but also for linear infrastructure on a greater, geospatial, country-wide level.. Our experience here tells us that rather than designing things from scratch in the future, more and more work will be done using algorithmic design.For example, PRiSM allows us to generate a design very quickly.