Cladding Crossrail's tunnels

We should shape this now, proactively, rather than wait for external forces or commercial imperatives to impose something on us..

This is something else we’re looking at – or designing the mechanical and electrical engineering systems in new office buildings so that they are flexible enough to change usage later.Obviously, there’s a challenge in thinking about ceiling heights and so on, but mostly the complexity is around air exchange.

In an office, you aim for one and a half air changes per hour, whereas with laboratories, because they've got lots of safety cabinets and other devices, we have to look at 10, 15 or even 20 changes an hour in some places.So the ductwork has to be 10 times as big, and the risers 10 times as big to carry the air up and down, and so on.Designing in flexibility presents lots of interesting challenges.. Master planning and MEP Design for a precious metals refinery.

We started working on this precious metals refinery in 2016.They refine five different types of precious metal.

The precious metals are obtained in raw form from many sources, but most come from catalytic converters in car exhausts.

The metals, once purified, don’t look like much – a grey powder – but they are hugely expensive..This sort of project helps create the environment for people – public and professionals – to engage with digital in the public realm.

This will be an exemplar of how applying technology creates a proliferation of benefits.. How to create a digital environment for planning.In order to enable a digitised planning process, the core requirement is to:.

Standardise and digitise (as far as possible and/or desirable) the rules under which designs are - by different parties - created, submitted, assessed, consulted on, amended, approved and ultimately built.. Agree the interoperable standard datasets that will enable this, and how to generate and use them.. As already said, the aim of this project is not to create a single solution for this process; we do not believe a single solution is in anyone’s best interests.We are interested in realising the environment within which one or multiple solutions can be developed and operate together.. To date we have focused on scoping each stage of the process and developing a demo version of how a digital planning process would operate.