Using an execution model to rapidly translate this lab design, historic project data, and other inputs, into a cost and programme estimate, as well as other useful business metrics.. Fast Lab allows teams to complete all these steps in a single workshop, with numerous design iterations, scenarios, and improvements taking place in real time.

Open and shared information is integral to the platforms approach: across projects and across sectors..Weight on upfront design is made viable by the digitised process: automated design and updates speed up the process and have delivery ‘built in’..

Complete and integrated design to prove compliance at the earliest stages..However simplified, this is still construction, and the process still involves big data.However, the digital library can mobilise this wealth of data available.

No longer overwhelming, it becomes easy to manage and utilise.Designers can consider the most complex and vast strands of data and options immediately and simultaneously..

This data helps designers plan for the fullest range of complex requirements at the earliest stages, from safety to stakeholder requirements, from operations to maintenance, from re-use and net zero to wider sustainability goals..

Platforms enable designers to consider, share and integrate all pertinent data in the earliest design concepts, locking this value in to the DNA of the design, delivery and operation..This allows us to identify the stakeholders and what they value.

We then determine with our client – and key stakeholders – what the high level aspects are of a solution that would solve this problem.That might sound a bit trivial, but the point is that the solution is almost never a building by itself.

A building is a system that, together with other systems, realises the value that matters to client and stakeholders..In the case of the prison transformation project we worked on, this meant that there were two key components to the solution: the people that work in the prison and the building that allows them to do what they need to do in order to help prisoners in their rehabilitation journey.