We put a tremendous amount of effort into component design because we know we’ll be using those same components again and again.

This could be a manufacturing step in a factory, or security check in an airport.We call these pieces of the value chain Chips, and strung together they form our process.. Chips provide physicality.

They allow engineers to design and simultaneously generate data.This data can then be used by other departments.For example, finance can use it to determine Cost of Goods, amongst other things.

Chip Thinking®️ brings together different perspectives and allows people to see what an early representation of a project looks like.It is illuminating, for example, to combine Chip Thinking®️ with other Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) tools, such as discrete event modelling, which enables us to evaluate issues like where goods will move and how long things will take in each step..

This way of working also allows us to test things very quickly.

We can test different scenarios and the modelling will follow.They need to understand that the standard processes are comfortably wrong: everyone feels comfortable about them but they produce the wrong answer, and that is because the path is predefined.. Once the values of a project are established, diagramming begins.

Visual language is key to articulating this.For instance, a client might express that they need a space to do.

X process in, which needs to be near a space that can handle Y process, which needs to be next to something else essential but perhaps seemingly unrelated, and they all need to have good light and be highly adaptable.For this, a diagram to spatially explore how this might work is a key tool for communication and design.