In advance of International Women's Day on the 8th March, we asked some of our female architects, engineers and designers to share their thoughts on being women in construction.. EVA MAGNISALI - HEAD OF ROBOTICS.
move a threatened species) but provide the foundations to increase natural habitats?This is not just putting money aside to plant trees, it’s about working with environmental groups – not to seek reluctant acceptance but instead enthusiastic support and ideas.
We know that green spaces are a positive influence on our well-being.Studies have shown that contact with nature has a significant impact on mental health.This is another example where multiple value drivers can be augmented in tandem; increasing diversity, improving well-being, supporting productivity and creating educational environments.. How can we reduce waste materials, and, moreover, incorporate them into the built environment, reusing plastics and other potential throwaways?.
How do we look at all these things together to find the best business, aesthetic and environmental solutions?.The answer is simple and difficult.
Thinking more broadly with the widest purpose, giving the right culture and encouragement is easy for a time.
Creating the space, the willingness to change, requires a great deal of energy.We are interested in realising the environment within which one or multiple solutions can be developed and operate together.. To date we have focused on scoping each stage of the process and developing a demo version of how a digital planning process would operate.
The demo version is a series of dashboards showing how sets of interoperable data will enable the planning process at its various stages; which elements can be automated and which will require human intervention; and where we can connect with existing solutions.. Standardising and digitising the rules and datasets will enable us to move from demo to reality.. As said earlier, this is not a question of starting from scratch (or reinventing the wheel): the data already generated through the use of BIM and 3D modelling will form the basis of this process.Established formats such as BCF already allow for rich data sharing (although they are not always used to achieve this).
The task that lies ahead – and the project that will fundamentally reshape the landscape – is to define shared underlying rules that will allow the existing parts to connect, and facilitate the creation of new applications to plug the gaps and create onward connections.. Impact on key planning roles.A digitised planning process will not replace humans with computers.