Advancing collaboration and innovation in construction with Integrated Project Delivery | Tim Coldwell, President, Chandos Construction

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.

The most significant change for architects will be to free up large chunks of their time to devote to the creative part of their work, which is where they can add the most value (and which is why they became architects in the first place)..Better information for planning officers:.

As for architects, digitisation is about giving them access to more and better information on which to base their decisions, and creating more time in which to make them.Making these decisions is why people become planners in the first place..If architects are using 3D models, why would planners use 2D drawings and not those models?

When daylight tracking is measurable and predictable (if complex), why would planners be checking the architects’ sums, armed with a calculator, when a ‘digital app’ could do this more efficiently?Why are planners (and the public) expected to engage with idealised and unrealistic CGI images of proposed developments that they cannot adjust, interrogate or control?

Digitisation would make it possible to view proposed developments in their context, that any user could control and view from any angle.. Planning applications and the public:.

The more accessible a planning application can be made, the easier it can be interpreted.Our Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) provides some answers here.

As a method of construction, it presents many advantages, but in this context three stand out:.The Platforms approach to construction uses standard components for buildings that can be assembled in a number of ways, depending on the purpose of the building.

But because they’re standardised, these parts can be disassembled and reassembled relatively easily within the superstructure.The inherent agility of Platform construction means that final decisions on configuration can be made much later in the process than in traditional construction, allowing for change, if necessary, during design and build..