Process engineering and Design to Value, Built Environment Matters podcast with John Dyson, Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham

Sustainable construction methods and designing for the circular economy are both possible, and essential.

They are not naive, most already have served time in industry, but they each hold a set of values which I found profound and uplifting..The second reason to be hopeful comes whenever I investigate, look into, or hold discussions in and across many spheres.

Process engineering and Design to Value, Built Environment Matters podcast with John Dyson, Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham

I see and hear stories about people doing great things with an intent of making the world a better, more sustainable place in the most holistic sense.Specifically, I have had meetings with two of the organisations I partner with: my local Watermill Theatre, which, as well as producing truly magical theatre, has an outreach scheme that touches hundreds of lives, and the World Land Trust, which is actively protecting habitat and species diversity around the world.With both organisations, we are looking at ways to work together to magnify our individual impact..

Process engineering and Design to Value, Built Environment Matters podcast with John Dyson, Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham

I see academics, businesses, and organisations of people focusing on the problems that face us, not just out of good intent but out of facing cold, hard realities.This is resulting in money, the fuel of the world economy, being slowly but steadily diverted from the old economy to a new one.

Process engineering and Design to Value, Built Environment Matters podcast with John Dyson, Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham

We are starting to invest in a changing world.

Leaders and regimes will come and go, but this matrix of positive intent and action is what will truly drive the next 50 years..We have already seen our PRiSM to Platforms digital workflow deliver tremendous improvements to the procurement and payment process.

As soon as we have a design we like, we can instantly generate a data model.This information gives us all the bill of materials quantities we’ll need for the project, and from this data set we can also create the BIM models (ie.

the BIM model is one ‘view’ of the data set, not the other way round).What’s more, as we move further into a construction Platforms space, we will increasingly see the data set of a design able to talk directly to the manufacturing marketplace.