To meet the LETI benchmarks this means every other element in the building needs to perform better to offset the impact of MEP.

Considering how much impact planning has on our lives, it is not as present or discoverable as many other aspects of contemporary living.The laminated notices on lamp posts which inform the public of local planning applications can easily be missed or ignored, and are often hard to understand.

We do not have the levels of informed, accessible, public engagement with planning that would benefit the process and the built environment.Digitisation would open up new ways to engage the wider public at all stages of the planning process..The increasing digitisation of relevant information and data, and our ability to import that data into the planning process in meaningful ways will further help engagement.

Well constructed visual representations make raw data accessible to a wide audience.This will allow people to consider individual planning applications in broader contexts – of sustainability or social mobility, say – or understand the trade-offs and implications inherent in making changes to part of a development.

Overall, it will mean the public can form and offer opinions based on rich and contextualised information, rather than on inaccessible and indigestible data and projects in isolation..

In other words, it will allow more people to engage in the right way at the right point in the planning process, accessing the right information and able to give the right kind of opinion.. Further, this will enable a holistic view; the ability to consider planning applications in relation to each other, in terms of design etc.We hope that giving people the skills to perform a range of tasks, versus one repetitive task, will also lead to greater job satisfaction and productivity, as it has in the manufacturing industry..

Built assets in use: unlocking operational data through construction platform design.One of the struggles facing traditional construction is the fact that every building is a prototype.

This means, even if (and it’s a big ‘if’) you have some structured, operational data, it only tells you about that particular asset type.You won’t learn anything about the next building you build, as it will also be a prototype.