Even the steps on the journey, as focus on interoperability, data standards and consistent specifications, would help accelerate the digital shift that is already underway.
(And by extension – this can encompass building control, health and safety and other types of compliance checking.).This degree of automation will not remove the requirement for human judgement and discretion in planning decisions.
The purpose of digitisation is to facilitate the process by reducing the burden on those people of large amounts of admin and tedious, repetitive tasks that can be done better by machines than humans.. Benefits for architects:.A digitised planning process will involve a change in the way architects are required to produce some information on their designs, and it will enforce a rigour and consistency in the technical elements of designs (which does not imply or require any constraint on creativity).This is not a huge departure, however: rigour in approach is good practice, and the information required is already largely included in BIM models..
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..Of course, the most pressing, current question is: how do we make a planet which sustainably supports 11.5 billion people?
Population growth coupled with the required infrastructure will generate massive amounts of carbon.We must find ways to deliver what we need using much less.
Optimisation of materials, better control of logistics, automation in construction, fewer people on site – all of these factors will help to create an overall lower carbon version of the built environment.We’re already working hard with concrete manufacturers to find the lowest carbon form of concrete we can possibly use.
(Editor: Powerful Wipes)