Of course, the industry’s aging workforce and skills shortage means that we also need to make the industry more attractive for workers in order to overcome other problems we’re facing.

While the data we gather in master planning involves large amounts of human activity and processes, the outputs are all digital to some degree, and the entire process is digital in character, seeking to extract and organise data, so that at a later stage we can establish and apply rigorous rules.This is where Design to Value intersects with digital.. For master planning, this is an approach that is proven to deliver substantial benefit to clients, against a wide range of value drivers.

The collaborative element is essential.The distance travelled across a project is always impressive, and the destination is rarely what the client imagined it would be at the outset – but it is always better.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesComplex HVAC requirements at Illumina.

Illumina is a high-tech company, based in the USA but with a very large UK presence.We first met Illumina because they were building their new UK HQ – a very large laboratory building – on Quanta Park, where we were already active.

We were called in to assist with the mechanical and electrical engineering aspect of the project where additional technical input was required, to sit with the client and tie the various elements together, assess why it was going wrong, and help secure its completion and commissioning.. Illumina specialise in DNA sequencing.

DNA analysis is a complex and data-intensive business.Marks seems confident about the direction things are headed.. “Three-quarters of all specialty subcontractors have experience with multi-trade and two-thirds of general contractors have experience with multi-trade assemblies and prefabrication,” she says, referencing.

McKinsey’s report.about the state of U.S. construction over the past three years..

In other words, it’s already happening.We just need it to get better.. A formula for change.