Some of these end-of-life difficulties with engineered timber relate to its size.
Still, digitising planning presents a complex and difficult challenge.Rickets says that while planning isn’t broken, it is slow.
Once the designs of architects and engineers are submitted to the local planning authority, all of that design, modelling, information and data, is, in a sense, dumbed down.It’s turned back into 2D plans and some PDF documents.Much of the valuable information is lost because councils can’t consume the 3D designs and BIM models created by architects and engineers.. From this point, the information goes to the local planning authority.
While they’re good at interpreting it, things can take a long time depending on the size of the development.Ricketts says he’s spent time with case officers who’ve spent two days with a calculator trying to work out daylight sunlight calculations and viability.
He points out that these people didn’t go into planning to do those things.
They went into planning to do the subjective work, and to do the planning..The software we use in the construction industry is designed (as for every industry) to appeal to a wide audience and to deliver functionality to the largest number of users.
This means it will often support mainstream design behaviours but it won’t push the boundaries of the possible.It is not the place to find the future of design.
It stabilises recent or novel design approaches, but it doesn’t help develop new ones.Generalised software designed for generalised users produces generalised processes, activities and results.. There’s a place for that approach to automating construction, but it’s not why we’re here.