- Conduct detailed whole-life carbon analysis of buildings, including harvesting, processing, manufacturing, and transportation to end-of-life disposal.. - Prioritise locally produced engineered timber and strategically select timber that can be shipped instead of transported by road.. At Bryden Wood, we have explored local sourcing of engineered timber.

This is why digitising planning makes quite a good use case because, in theory, it’s a linear process..The next issue with data is governance, and the question of whether someone is allowed to share particular data.

Here we see issues like cybersecurity and GDPR coming into play, presenting a list of complex and expensive regulations to navigate.Finally, there’s the issue of transacting data.While on the one hand someone might worry about opening themselves up to liability by providing data, they might also be wary of someone else using their data to achieve financial gain, and missing out on the opportunity themselves.

Sharp says the situation has led to a nervousness and immaturity surrounding data, resulting in a tendency to either refuse to share data, or a lack of control for the end user.What we need, she says, is a much more mature set of transaction mechanisms.

We need agreements, possibly establishing the rules of data use, or how any profits will be shared.

This will be key to getting a really high functioning National Digital Twin, even with the National Data Strategy..Not only that, I suspect some of the current players will disrupt their own business models to broaden the range of services and income streams they're able to generate.. We’re also likely to see some contractors start to diversify the services they offer, or broaden their range of products.

They’ll need to be able to respond to what happens in the future, as we change our focus to the provision of whole-life solutions, rather than just capital assets.Pure contracting, as we currently know it, is likely to be a smaller part of the market.

Consultancy models are also likely to change, with a shift away from hourly rates for procured design services, towards an outcome and value-based model.This would work more like app development, where a product developer might identify a need in the market and then create a solution to license, achieving monetisation by selling it repeatedly in the UK and overseas.