The more information we have, the better outcomes we’ll be able to achieve.. Impacting the future with digitisation and MMC.
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.We can then use a range of simulation tools to optimise and refine the design, in order to deliver the best possible solution for a specific site.
We are able to consider a variety of architectural and environmental factors: energy balance, people movements, overshadowing, architectural aesthetics, and placemaking.This gives us much better, and much more considered, designs at site level.. Additionally, our work on REM teaches us that if the algorithm creates an unusual outcome, the solution is to fix the ruleset, not the algorithmic model.
Over time, this creates vastly improved results, as the rules and algorithmic designs get better and better.
These results have allowed us to visualise and assess both the risks and opportunities of a smart motorway at the earliest planning stages.The podcast touches on the political and social challenges associated with transitioning from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources.
There is a discussion about the need for bipartisan support and social acceptance to repower coal plants, highlighting the potential for job preservation and economic benefits in communities dependent on these plants..These takeaways reflect the podcast's discussion on the role of innovative nuclear technologies and strategic repurposing of infrastructure in achieving decarbonisation and addressing the pressing energy demands of the future..
Learn more about Bryden Wood's role in the REPOWER project.What are platforms?In this video, Jaimie Johnston MBE explains how a platforms approach to design for manufacture and assembly (P-DfMA) works - and how it is delivering results at the Forge, a major commercial development by Landsec in central London..