Design to Value: Shaping a Better Built Environment | Martin Wood
You actually need discrete data, you need the connection with the maker as the architect.
That is the risk of just further discussion, just more circular arguments, just more vacillation and no action.How valuable will it be?
After all there were people in the room that in their own fields were already working very hard on these issues and had deep insight into it..Forming new connections across a broad sweep of the whole ecosystems of solvent use in Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical manufacture seemed to create some new insights, clarity and catalyse future collaborations.. What is the solvent dilemma?.Solvents are used in large quantities in chemistry-based processing, their release to the atmosphere is climatically impactful, their waste streams are environmentally toxic, they represent a significant cost and risk in terms of treatment and regulation.
There is a significant problem and no clear single path to addressing it.Some progress can be made intra-company, other parts require innovation in the supply and waste chains.
Technological solutions need regulatory change, and other parts will need cross-sector collaboration.. To address the problem requires significant investment in capital and resources.
In short, a complex problem and therefore there are dilemmas.The Benefits of Digitising Planning.
Digitising planning is an emerging technology and way of working, and it’s hoped that learnings will be shared as things develop in different areas of the world.While we’ll never get rid of the subjective element of planning, and certainly not the need for people, digitising planning could help reduce administrative burden, freeing up time for planners to do the more valuable, judgement based planning work and enabling us to make better, and more holistic, sets of decisions.. Another benefit it’s hoped will arise from digitising the planning system is to make planning more accessible to members of the public.
Being able to engage with and interpret a 3D model is much more helpful to people than being presented with unrealistic CGI imagery depicting permanent sunshine and few cars.Currently, trust in the planning system is at a low.