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discussed some recent developments in my region but the interest in using DfMA on construction projects to drive benefits related to cost and programme, quality, productivity, health and safety and sustainability is growing worldwide.. As DfMA grows from a niche topic into a mainstream conversation in the construction industry, more and more government and private sector stakeholders are getting involved developing strategies and finding opportunities.

This is not a huge departure, however: rigour in approach is good practice, and the information required is already largely included in BIM models..The most significant change for architects will be to free up large chunks of their time to devote to the creative part of their work, which is where they can add the most value (and which is why they became architects in the first place)..

Better information for planning officers:.As for architects, digitisation is about giving them access to more and better information on which to base their decisions, and creating more time in which to make them.Making these decisions is why people become planners in the first place..

If architects are using 3D models, why would planners use 2D drawings and not those models?When daylight tracking is measurable and predictable (if complex), why would planners be checking the architects’ sums, armed with a calculator, when a ‘digital app’ could do this more efficiently?

Why are planners (and the public) expected to engage with idealised and unrealistic CGI images of proposed developments that they cannot adjust, interrogate or control?

Digitisation would make it possible to view proposed developments in their context, that any user could control and view from any angle.. Planning applications and the public:.But agility can’t simply be reactive.

We have to design it into our built environment.Future-proofing is no longer about thinking how we might repurpose a building in twenty years’ time.

The question now is how we allow for changes that may well cycle round in a matter of months..In a world where everyone may need to work from home, what does that mean for designing and building flats and houses?