Kevin Griffiths

She discusses the moral implications of designing spaces that are intended for confinement, highlighting the importance of considering how these environments affect human behaviour and dignity.

This is creating confusion surrounding outputs in terms of what people are receiving and why.Currently, after designers create the concept design (including testing related to the engineering), things get handed over to the contractors to de-risk the program, make changes, and make the design work for them.

They then deliver what’s left back to the client.Lamont doesn’t believe it’s necessarily the best process.. On the other side of things, there are governments trying to lead the path to innovation.In the UK there’s Level 2 BIM.

In Australia, different states are following different approaches.In Queensland any government project over 50 million dollars must be fully BIM detailed, with a set of requirements related to output and deliverables.

That said, he believes that the contracting market is engaging for compliance, not necessarily to be more efficient.

He talks about Transport for New South Wales, who’ve come up with an amazing, digital engineering framework to set the output requirements they want the industry to meet.The opportunity for this sort of package was recognized in the 2017 Industrial Strategy.

This was a significant step because the problems facing construction are long-standing and well known.During the last few decades, while other large industries have gone through transformational levels of change, the construction industry has remained relatively static.

Following on from the Latham and Egan reports in the 1990s, in 2016 the Farmer Report concluded that the industry must “modernise or die.”.Sully says that the key element we’ve been missing in construction is the ethos of collaboration and innovation found in other industries.