When asked to compare their personal values with that of a business, they expressed how they wished to use their knowledge and skills to make a difference in the world.

We can then use a range of simulation tools to optimise and refine the design, in order to deliver the best possible solution for a specific site.We are able to consider a variety of architectural and environmental factors: energy balance, people movements, overshadowing, architectural aesthetics, and placemaking.

This gives us much better, and much more considered, designs at site level.. Additionally, our work on REM teaches us that if the algorithm creates an unusual outcome, the solution is to fix the ruleset, not the algorithmic model.Over time, this creates vastly improved results, as the rules and algorithmic designs get better and better.These results have allowed us to visualise and assess both the risks and opportunities of a smart motorway at the earliest planning stages.

Consequently, it now takes a few days to do what used to take months..Eventually, we believe these design apps will start to link up and talk to each other, forming a linked digital ecosystem.

As such, this kind of broad, architectural master planning will not be done subjectively, by people, but rather will occur as a result of millions of iterations of potential placements.

These placements will be optimised to create the best possible solutions for all of our major functions: education, commercial spaces, residential, and industry.Our solution was to use a small variety of repeatable elements.

Across the entire project, we have minimised the variety of types and sizes of equipment and distribution modules.This is to ensure repeatability, without compromising the performance of the building, both in terms of energy consumption and user comfort.

Doing this allows us to combine efficiency of performance with economies of scale on buying, for example, larger quantities of single gauge of pipe.. For ease of installation, we use pre-wired electrical products wherever possible.Fan and pipe modules are fabricated off-site, designed for simple connection on site.. We pre-cast a pattern of fixing points into the soffit, so that there would be no drilling into the soffit onsite – avoiding working at height, dirt, noise and the risk of drilling into the steel rebar within the concrete.