Rubel’s insights into Forsight Digital's methodologies demonstrate how data can guide the planning and programming of healthcare facilities, leading to more efficient and effective hospital designs.. 3.
Examples of AI are often narrowly defined and only really touch a very specific part of the overall process; the part for which large data sets do exist.. ‘Generative design’ means many things, but generally it’s an approach used in the industry to solve complicated problems; you use generative design to create loads of possible solutions or scenarios, from which you choose the best..The Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) approach that we have in Bryden Wood – which is embedded in Creative Technologies – means that something like generative design can be more powerful, as it can be built around design rules and content that’s inherently more clearly defined..
When people in the industry talk about cutting-edge construction technologies, these are usually buzzwords about things that are not widely in use, generally misunderstood and unlikely ever to deliver the advertised benefits – because they’re not appropriate solutions and our industry is too far from ready.It’s good that people talk about construction tech – that creates an environment broadly open to tech – but that’s not the same as being able to actually use it..In our team, we only ever apply technology when it is appropriate to the problem at hand.
We have never, for example, had to use a Machine Learning solution, because we’ve never had a problem that it’s been the right technology for..Nor do we think that the future of robotics in construction is in building robots to do jobs that we, or they, shouldn’t be doing in the first place.
Technology is not fairy dust that you sprinkle onto a problem to sort it out.
You need to assess the entire process and engage actively with technology to see where – or whether – it will add value.Private companies like Octopus in the UK are looking at expanding their remit and starting to invest in distribution of power..
The regulatory hurdles are not lessening.In fact, most believe they are tightening.
The energy efficiency of data centres (PUE) is being increasingly regulated, especially in the EU.In Germany, specific regulations about the use of recovered heat are coming into force.