If incinerated, it generates energy and does not release methane but still releases the stored carbon along with other pollutants.
Thankfully, due to technological advancement, we now have the ability to modernise planning, and the emphasis on digitisation in the planning white paper provides high-level support.At Bryden Wood, our Creative Technologies team has been working alongside the London Borough of Southwark, the Centre for Digital Built Britain and 3D Repo to advance the issue..
The quest to digitise the planning system involves a complex ecosystem of different industry players coming together.Jack Ricketts, a planner at London Borough of Southwark, doesn’t want to see the planning process holding others back.While working on projects funded by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Ricketts sought to avoid the possibility of duplicating work, or becoming an accidental blocker to the process.
He reached out to industry expert Miranda Sharp for help in making a shift towards digital data.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.This means DfMA can be much more collaborative than conventional design, bringing the designer and builder closer together to pursue a common goal..
There are many different methods of constructing a building.In addition to conventional methods, alternatives have been developed that deploy prefabrication, pre-assembly, design standardisation and/or automation to some degree and these are collectively referred to as Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)..
Exploring the MMC toolkit: from offsite construction to PPVC and beyond.MMC is the collective term for the innovative construction methods that can be deployed by the DfMA designer.