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Transitioning to an automated construction supply chain: future business model innovation for SMEs.

Fundamental to our design approach is that we start from the client’s requirements, which we establish during a series of early workshops.Designing a complex project does not always evolve in a linear fashion, so to deliver a quality design solution we must identify in the early stages of the design the details (technical, organisational, etc.)

that have a big impact.Once we clarify the structure of the briefing information, we identify key stakeholders.. We conduct extensive engagement with clinical and non-clinical staff, as well as patients and visitors.We examine the flows and resources of people through the building, in order to maximise efficiency at every opportunity.

We reduce avoidable travel by designing to adjacencies and linkages wherever they add value – while at the same time understanding the need to keep certain functions, or categories of user, very separate.We include and consider as many variables as we can to make sure that the hospital will function as well as it can.. We produce detailed functional and support diagrams to guide the process.

When these diagrams are agreed with our client, we create spatial diagrams, detailing all required rooms, their shapes and the relations between them.

This allows us to engage more specialist stakeholders, and make sure their requirements for each of the rooms are met.. We describe this approach as designing the hospital from the inside out.is a book due to be published soon by RIBA.

We have a chapter in it.You can order it here:.

www.ribabooks.com/design-studio-vol-2-intelligent-control-2021-disruptive-technologies-2021_9781859469705.To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.