If we truly aim to create a better future for construction, we must first recognise that implementing a new way of working will require a process of continual learning and progress.
And that enables us to try lots of different options in a short amount of time.As mentioned, this is a key element of our Design to Value approach, as it enables us to get closer to an optimum solution..
Unfortunately, we sometimes find ourselves in the conventional engineering situation of having to limit the number of options that we look at because we haven't got the time or the resources to look at too many.Clearly, it is fine to narrow down a set of options on a rational basis.But if it's simply that we don't have time, we are at risk of staying away from the optimum solution.
That means more cost and more time which, ultimately, is going to affect the patient who is at the end of that supply chain.As a result, these are particularly important factors to consider in the design and construction of pharmaceutical facilities..
In summary, Chips allow us many different perspectives on parts of a project.
And crucially, they provide the common language for communication between all the different people involved in executing that project..She recalls a conversation with two linear infrastructure providers who wanted to establish a simple use case of information to be shared in order to better guard against, and mitigate, the effects of flood.
However, with one provider interested in road safety and surface water, and the other in railways and embankment flooding, they quickly discovered that their differing concerns added significant complication to the task.A complex process of questioning ensued around the use and translation of nomenclature, which Sharp says was a useful process in itself.
However, the fact remained that every time they opened a new conversation, a new dimension and further complexity was revealed.. Sharp says this is why the ideas behind the National Digital Twin are necessary, because although we have lots of very specialised and efficient systems for sharing information, in order to achieve the next level of efficiency and public benefit, we need to start sharing information between systems.While we’re very optimised to keep water off the roads, we don’t really understand other aspects, such as whether a drainage ditch should be built to go left or right at a particular junction.