Although the construction industry often objects to such comparisons on the basis of being different, the fact is there are tremendous similarities.
Standardised solutions lend themselves to efficiencies in construction and the application of DfMA.Operational benefits.
Standardised solutions facilitate efficient operation and maintenance, as well as aiding staff and prisoner wayfinding and navigation.. A developmental process, an evidence-based approach.Bryden Wood had been working with MoJ since 2011, when we helped developed their BIM Implementation Plan.We went on to join the MoJ’s multi-disciplinary designer framework in 2014 and, before PETP, developed a ‘proof of concept’ for the application of DfMA to the custodial estate..
In February 2016, at the beginning of PETP, we conducted research into the aspects of design that can help influence rehabilitative outcomes.The huge stakeholder engagement effort that informed the new prison design was the biggest piece of research ever undertaken by the department into the effectiveness of prison design and building use.
This is a very good example of how evidence underpins our approach to design.. Stakeholders and sources of evidence included:.
Serving and former prison governors, staff and prisoners.In this context, generative design means using computers to assemble designs based on a set of rules, components and input parameters.
We generate very large numbers of options for a particular design requirement, and then get humans back in to look at those critically.. We can generate many more options using automation.Sometimes we find something which human expertise has not spotted.
Generative design can create unexpected options with high value.. We are now working on making Chips available to very large numbers of users through a web interface, to use generative design for pharmaceutical plants.We are also associating process simulation data with those Chips, so that we can look at throughput, and use throughput to define what Chips we need..