However, upcycling of these elements is still a viable solution.. Our response is to:.

These included things such as names, addresses and locations, although specifics weren’t included as the work was still pre proof of concept..The Benefits of Digitising Planning.

Digitising planning is an emerging technology and way of working, and it’s hoped that learnings will be shared as things develop in different areas of the world.While we’ll never get rid of the subjective element of planning, and certainly not the need for people, digitising planning could help reduce administrative burden, freeing up time for planners to do the more valuable, judgement based planning work and enabling us to make better, and more holistic, sets of decisions.. Another benefit it’s hoped will arise from digitising the planning system is to make planning more accessible to members of the public.Being able to engage with and interpret a 3D model is much more helpful to people than being presented with unrealistic CGI imagery depicting permanent sunshine and few cars.

Currently, trust in the planning system is at a low.If we can help people feel more in control of what they’re being consulted on, and give them a better sense of what a development will really look like, it should help to alleviate a lot of concern.. At present, ten Pathfinder projects are being undertaken by various local authorities.

All of them are looking at how to digitise planning policy, and make it more machine readable.

Local plans take years for councils to produce, and are based on evidence which is out of date almost as soon as it’s put into use, and definitely by the time the plan is published years later.LETI have taken it upon themselves to look at embodied carbon in order to put into a single benchmark what the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), RIBA, CIBSE and others are doing.

It’s positive that individual institutions are there to provide very detailed guidance for specific consultants and professionals, but we also need to have an overarching look at where the industry is heading as a whole.. LETI and Design for net zero carbon.Last year LETI published some of the first documents offering advice on designing for net-zero carbon: The Climate Emergency Design Guide, and The Embodied Carbon Primer.

A voluntary organisation made up of hundreds of professionals, LETI aims to share and collate knowledge in order to improve the way buildings are designed.Bryden Wood’s Head of Sustainability, Helen Hough, has been leading the embodied carbon workstream for the past year.