This sort of project helps create the environment for people – public and professionals – to engage with digital in the public realm.

In fact, we’re already seeing a wide range of benefits from the adoption of Platforms (P-DfMA) and our wider approach using modern methods of construction.Our recent work in the UK with Landsec on a modular office building project has demonstrated the following advantages: the automation of processes leading to a 30-50% reduction in the numbers of people onsite, an increase in safety as a result of reduced work at height, lower capital costs with a 25% reduction in materials due to component optimisation, and a 13% improvement in speed.

Already impressive, we expect these metrics will only continue to improve over time.. Design to Value.The starting point, and where we must begin in order to truly maximise the benefits that P-DfMA and MMC make possible, is to rework our core processes (design, procure, construct, operate) around a central, driving principle: process-led design.In other words, we must begin with the manufacture and assembly process in mind.

Innovation doesn’t respect discipline or sector boundaries.It needs to sit across the entire operation.

We are interested in increasing quality, productivity, timeliness and cost effectiveness.

So we have to ask certain key questions from the outset, like: what’s the least amount of material that could possibly be used to build an asset?But also a place of catering, deliveries, laundry and car parking..

It must be as efficient as possible, and house some of the most advanced technology in the world, and yet feel human and welcoming.And whatever else it is today, we know that it may need to be something very different – although we don’t know what – in just a few months’ time..

The opportunity within healthcare design and build is to address all of these competing value drivers successfully.This is the essence of our core approach – design to value.. Our overarching aim is to deliver a beautiful building which achieves excellence in clinical outcomes, patient safety and user experience, savings in cost and carbon, precision in budget and timescales, and flexibility to allow for future developments, planned and not.. A holistic approach to healthcare.