What is automation good for?

Already impressive, we expect these metrics will only continue to improve over time.. Design to Value.

When these diagrams are agreed with our client, we create spatial diagrams, detailing all required rooms, their shapes and the relations between them.This allows us to engage more specialist stakeholders, and make sure their requirements for each of the rooms are met.. We describe this approach as designing the hospital from the inside out.

But we never lose sight of the architectural response to the brief.Creating a beautiful space is a value-driver in itself, with a proven link to clinical outcomes.Nothing is in isolation..

Flexibility through standardisation.In the case of new build projects, our Platforms approach to design and construction will usually inform the concept design.

The principle of Platforms is to design to the commonalities between spaces both within and across sectors, with the result that construction can make use of a standard ‘kit of parts’.

This brings a wide variety of benefits, not least flexibility.. By recognising that the space required for a treatment room can be the same as for an office, say, designing on that principle means that, should the need arise, it is easy to convert an office into a treatment room, or vice versa.Future proofing is a consideration, because when new materials and improvements in the industry arise, we want to be able to make best use of them without having to substantially change designs.

We don’t want to have to rearrange all of our architecture, just because there's a new product available.We can overcome this issue by designing flexible buildings, offering future use suitability to a number of different architectural typologies..

The benefits of kit-of-parts architecture.Another benefit of a Platform construction, kit-of-parts, approach is that it’s very deconstructable.