The integrated team need to be much more proactive and collaborative than design-coordination, which is a lagging process, detecting and correcting clashes.
Design to Value naturally seeks wider and synergistic value, leading, supporting and embracing these needs as an opportunity to innovate: the environment is not an encumbrance, but a space for crucial change through design..Thinking beyond standards, Design to Value can look at absolutes and even further can look for redemption.
The most significant and perhaps difficult question needed to be addressed in every project is: how can we not build things we don’t really need even if they have a financial return?A factory in Japan was due for closure and demolition as it no longer met the requirements for withstanding an earthquake after rules were changed following the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.Studies to look at remediating the buildings had suggested the need to cease operations for 18 months, meaning the solution was unviable.
Although the client was looking for the most efficient replacement factory, the Design to Value approach – combined with clever thinking and seismic modelling – came up with a solution to support the existing building.This eradicated the need to replace or shut down the operation, saving the client more than £120 million – not to mention tonnes of embedded and emitted carbon in the construction of a new asset..
If building is the only option, then the hard questions need to continue:.
What would a zero-carbon building look like across its whole lifespan?He suggests avoiding discussions about general AI and instead focusing on practical applications.. 3.
Next generation of architects (Gen Z).Randy is optimistic about the current generation of architecture graduates, describing them as loyal, dedicated, and environmentally conscious.
He predicts a 5-7 year 'renaissance' period where these new professionals will drive significant change in the industry, before many potentially move into startups or entrepreneurial ventures.. 4.Evolution of architectural education.
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