A laboratory design should be services-led.
Sharp’s company, Metis Digital, works with a range of companies trying to connect technical assets and data to value.During her time working with the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) on the National Digital Twin Programme (NDTp), Sharp sought secure and resilient ways of connecting digital twins to deliver the common good, and looked for real examples of people trying to connect data in order to tackle cross-silo issues.
The goal was to facilitate more efficient planning and operation, as well as to make data available to a wider ecosystem, including all of the people involved in critical infrastructure planning.. Sharp says CDBB knew the desired activity was possible theoretically, but needed a place where there was real demand to bring the information together.When Jack Ricketts contacted her about his desire to digitise planning, it seemed a perfect opportunity..Stages of information transfer in design and construction.
There are various stages of information involved in the creation of a new building, or an extension of a domestic dwelling.Architects produce one set of information to one set of criteria, submitting it to planners who then need another, and particular, set of information.
From there it goes to the people who might approve the building, or the people constructing the building.
In reality, though, all of these people just need slightly different slices of the same information.Nor is our aim to start from scratch or reinvent the wheel - we are using the data that is already created through the use of BIM, and existing formats for sharing it..
The planning process in the UK touches all of our lives.It is integral to the way in which the built environment develops around us; affecting where we live, where we work, where we eat, shop and play, how we walk, cycle and drive, how we produce, manufacture, generate, store, dispose and recycle.
And yet the system we use has not changed since the 1940s.It is arcane, complex, fragmented and hard to access and navigate – especially for the public who are, ultimately, its most important stakeholder.