There are technologies being developed that extract CO2 from the atmosphere to incorporate into building materials.
The UK has huge construction requirements in multiple sectors – the planning process should be an enabler, not a barrier..Considering how much impact planning has on our lives, it is not as present or discoverable as many other aspects of contemporary living.
The laminated notices on lamp posts which inform the public of local planning applications can easily be missed or ignored, and are often hard to understand.We do not have the levels of informed, accessible, public engagement with planning that would benefit the process and the built environment.Digitisation would open up new ways to engage the wider public at all stages of the planning process..
The increasing digitisation of relevant information and data, and our ability to import that data into the planning process in meaningful ways will further help engagement.Well constructed visual representations make raw data accessible to a wide audience.
This will allow people to consider individual planning applications in broader contexts – of sustainability or social mobility, say – or understand the trade-offs and implications inherent in making changes to part of a development.
Overall, it will mean the public can form and offer opinions based on rich and contextualised information, rather than on inaccessible and indigestible data and projects in isolation..This will make sure that components arrive exactly when needed and that deliveries place the least amount of stress on local infrastructure.. A for assembly in DfMA: automation in construction and fewer operatives on site.
At Bryden Wood, we’ve started an initiative called the Framework for Robotics and Automated Construction (F.R.A.C.).The purpose is to examine how we begin to design for automation, as well as to determine what level of automation is appropriate on-site.
We’ve also been exploring automation in construction at component level.This is done via our work with Landsec and Easi Space at our Construction Platforms Research Centre in Ropley.
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