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Problems like carbon emissions, poor build quality, labour shortages and the housing crisis - they can all be improved if we collectively refocus our energies and unify our processes.

We have a strong background in technology, engineering and construction.The result of this is that we do not need to design to approximations and allowances – we can be precise from the outset.. Design from the inside out.

Fundamental to our design approach is that we start from the client’s requirements, which we establish during a series of early workshops.Designing a complex project does not always evolve in a linear fashion, so to deliver a quality design solution we must identify in the early stages of the design the details (technical, organisational, etc.)that have a big impact.

Once we clarify the structure of the briefing information, we identify key stakeholders.. We conduct extensive engagement with clinical and non-clinical staff, as well as patients and visitors.We examine the flows and resources of people through the building, in order to maximise efficiency at every opportunity.

We reduce avoidable travel by designing to adjacencies and linkages wherever they add value – while at the same time understanding the need to keep certain functions, or categories of user, very separate.

We include and consider as many variables as we can to make sure that the hospital will function as well as it can.. We produce detailed functional and support diagrams to guide the process.We all know that when some of the big tech companies created big data and laid the foundations for many technical advances, they gathered that data in some questionable ways.

We now hear people talking about putting tracking devices onto construction workers to record and measure their movements to increase efficiency, or to assess their wellbeing for health and safety purposes – but might these devices also be used to assess work rates and monitor time spent taking a toilet break?.As an industry, we should also be conscious of how technology moves through society, and the consequences of that.

We’ve seen the recent studies showing how Twitter’s face-crop algorithm prioritises white faces and women;.1. or the issues in 2020 with the UK government’s algorithm for predicting exam results during COVID, which marked down students from disadvantaged areas and backgrounds.. 2.