Master planning with a Design to Value approach

At Circle Birmingham, as in any hospital, the key project was excellent and efficient patient care, and Bryden Wood’s approach was to make this as easy as possible for the staff, while creating a welcoming, beautiful environment for patients.

Planning has always been one of the big digital breaks, where things suddenly go into quite a subjective, painful, and paper based process, and planning has long been held as a blocker to housing, amongst other things.The impact of digitising the planning process would be enormous, causing many other aspects to fall into place.. Digitising planning with RIPA and BoPS.

Still, digitising planning presents a complex and difficult challenge.Rickets says that while planning isn’t broken, it is slow.Once the designs of architects and engineers are submitted to the local planning authority, all of that design, modelling, information and data, is, in a sense, dumbed down.

It’s turned back into 2D plans and some PDF documents.Much of the valuable information is lost because councils can’t consume the 3D designs and BIM models created by architects and engineers.. From this point, the information goes to the local planning authority.

While they’re good at interpreting it, things can take a long time depending on the size of the development.

Ricketts says he’s spent time with case officers who’ve spent two days with a calculator trying to work out daylight sunlight calculations and viability.Reduction of the time and human resources spent in the delivery of the project.

Enables local sourcing.Reduction in whole life carbon.

This has led to a 22% reduction in embodied carbon compared to the traditional construction approach.The project predicts a 9.5% reduction in capital cost and 13% reduction in programme..