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In these types of examples, governance and transactional issues are less of an issue.However, when trying to make the planning process flow better, or trying to design an integrated transport system, it’s harder to be certain about what gains will be achieved from connecting digital assets.
Sharp says that type of understanding is still a long way off.. How long will it take to modernise planning?.Jack Ricketts says it isn’t currently known how long digitising the planning process will take because of the financial investment required.However, there are plans for an application to Innovate UK and their Smart Grant funding programme.
Of course, digitising the entire planning process is an enormous goal, and for efficiency’s sake, the process will have to begin with a single use case.Ricketts feels the best and most informative starting point is building safety, highlighting MHCLG’s external wall system survey as a good example of data collection and collation..
The MHCLG project asked local authorities to research and report back on the materials present in the external walls of all buildings above 18 metres within a particular borough.
Although it sounds like a straightforward task, in reality it presented some unexpectedly complex questions and issues to surmount.However, if we don’t make this evident to them, they’ll go to work for pure technology companies instead.
Construction and the wider built environment will miss out.But it doesn’t have to be that way.
We took SEISMIC, our school design app, to a primary school in Hackney.This digitally intuitive generation of Minecraft players already have many of the skills we need.