While grants can help, they are not sufficient on their own – governments and industry stakeholders must actively identify and fund promising new developments.. Keeping collaborations and conversations wide, while understanding there are solutions and opportunities still hidden away, will facilitate progress.
We’ve seen some successful examples of standards being set through private initiatives.. BRE’s BS6001.framework for the responsible sourcing of construction products relates to a couple of hundred products, is certified and very influential.
However, the framework would have had a completely different standardisation process if it were an ISO standard.As soon as things move into the realm of creating international standards, the issues surrounding language become even wider, and political and cultural issues also come into play, so it’s incredibly challenging.Furthermore, there are also important documents like.
The Construction Playbook., which came out in December 2020, but is neither a standard nor a piece of legislation.
Ultimately, the industry would benefit from some clarity in understanding where information sits and the relative authority and legitimacy it has regardless of whether one is a business, client or someone studying the sector..
Defining the Need Report: unlocking the future of industrialised construction.In other words, in this particular case, not building was deemed the most valuable thing.
Design to Value thinking requires a change to the way we approach projects.‘Can we do this?’ must become, ‘should we do this?’.
One helpful way to approach things is to consider projects as having both a problem space and a solution space.It’s important not to let our ideas about solutions become too fixed, too soon.
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