In summary, Chips allow us many different perspectives on parts of a project.

Miranda Sharp has been working on a demonstrator project focused on information share between utility providers in order to facilitate better decision making.She says that sharing data in this way could have a significant impact on our progress towards net zero.

Another example is Gavin Stark’s Icebreaker One project, which seeks to improve efficiency in data sharing.One challenge surrounding the issue is that bilateral sharing arrangements can actually create a significant amount of difficulty for other people.Sharp says that what we really need is something more free-flowing, and adds that we should be nudging the market in the right direction as it develops so that we end up with an optimally connected set of systems..

However, we’re also going to need to definitively demonstrate that the sharing of data will lead to capturable benefits, because such benefits are distributed, and until we demonstrate that, people won’t be motivated to take things forward.We want the people who invest to continue to invest.

Sharp points out that we use a lot of energy to make water, and a lot of water to make energy.

We need to understand which is the most economically efficient, and which is the best for the environment.I suppose it seems counter-intuitive for a firm focused on design and engineering for the built environment to put such stock in analytics.

This however is a key aspect of Bryden Wood’s Design to Value approach and for me has always seemed like a natural extension of our long-term quest to deliver better design through a deeper understanding of how buildings really work.. Others at Bryden Wood have already.written extensively.

about the importance of data and analytics in the design and construction industry.A major aim of design, at least in my view, is to deliver an outcome that fulfils the client’s requirements in the best possible way.