Platforms - Bridging the gap between construction + manufacturing

When you bring knowledgeable and thoughtful people together to address a problem there is a strongly perceived risk.

This is where his second project, Back-office Planning Service (BoPS), comes in.BoPS would take the information and present it to the case officer.

Ricketts says that although it all works in theory, in reality, we’re not even at the proof of concept stage yet.At the moment, there are conversations happening with partners and stakeholders about how best to achieve the goal..The RIPA project started at the simple end of planning applications with permitted development, which might include something like an application for a slightly larger kitchen, or a loft extension.

Permitted development is a technical assessment that provides yes or no answers based on aspects like allowable depths and heights.This makes codification easier.

At the other end of the scale, work for a case study was also undertaken on an example development of 50 flats, mapping it against the common themes that run through planning applications.

These included things such as names, addresses and locations, although specifics weren’t included as the work was still pre proof of concept..Embodied carbon in sustainable building design.

One of the core issues we’re trying to tackle with sustainable design revolves around carbon.We know a lot about operational carbon and how buildings operate.

Data helps us to close the performance gap and make sure buildings perform as well as, or even better than, they do in the design stage.As we’re able to drive better and better performance through energy efficient equipment and passive design techniques, we can actually start reducing our operational carbon right from the early design stages.