This podcast offers a comprehensive view of the future of construction, emphasising the need for lean principles, collaboration, standardisation, technological integration, and advanced planning methodologies.In this episode, Head of Global Systems,.

It’s quite an advantage,’ he says, ‘Because, just imagine, I’ve been in theatres all day and it helps at times, just to be able to reconnect a bit with the outside.’.This theme of bringing a sense of the outside into the internal hospital space is another picked up by multiple staff members.

‘I think for the patients on the ward the nice thing is that all of our bedrooms have their own windows that look out to an internal courtyard,’ says Highton.‘So they all have a natural element to them.They’re not looking out into an industrial unit or to another wall… The atrium is very large.

It’s open, it’s airy, so that provides light.It’s quite a light feeling building.’.

Wood confirms that by turning the upper floor, outpatient windows inward toward the courtyard, Bryden Wood were able to create ‘much better acoustic and views’ for those rooms.

‘We made the building an experience that was unaffected by surroundings…major roads and other buildings that we had privacy issues with onsite.We have the computing and processing infrastructure to do amazing things with data in the built environment sector, but we have to create it, share it – and use it.. We’re big believers in open source.

We use open source tools and technology in our work and we have built and shared some of our design automation work in the same way, so that other architects and designers can explore, understand, benefit – and hopefully build on – the work that we do.. Whilst technology can bring huge benefits to the construction industry, we also have to be aware of ethical questions around how data is collected and used.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.