We need to consider what the UK can offer those international markets beyond BIM.
Before COVID-19, the climate emergency was very prominent in the media, and the UK was the first major country to commit to achieving zero carbon targets by 2050.With the current pandemic, however, the focus on buildings is moving away from energy efficient buildings, and towards healthy buildings.
But can we have both?.The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has just released a. set of documents.which provide guidance for building owners and managers on how to start reoccupying their buildings.
The guidance relates to safe working practices and the assessment of building services..Some of the key themes are around air: providing more fresh air and avoiding recirculating air.
The guidance includes bypassing those heat recovery devices which may recirculate air in some circumstances, and considering air pathways – how air comes in, moves around and leaves a building.
This is because occupants of a poorly ventilated room are exposed to a higher concentration of airborne pathogens.The digital library establishes a digitised quality assurance process that means we can trace and record critical data from design through to operation..
Automated design configuration enables speedier up-front design.The data library can then be embedded in configurators: digital web-based apps/software, which apply the digital data to automatically generate anything from a schedule of room types, to a full, digital asset model..
This would revolutionise the speed with which up front design could be achieved, overcoming the challenge to investors presented by the need for more upfront design..Primary School Configurator.