By fostering collaboration, communication, and empathy, architects can better understand client and community needs, ultimately producing more thoughtful and impactful designs.. 4.
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Design to Value.Have you ever spent much time thinking about why things are the size they are?.
I have often come back to contemplating this topic when reading about mitochondria.Marks calls them ‘serial owners,’ because they are large-scale, repeat asset builders.
It’s when those big owners start making demands that the shifts occur.She refers to big-budget school programmes as an example and talks about their need for operational consistency, usually over large geos.
However, she cautions that after owners demand the change, it’s important they’re involved in allowing people to change the process to decrease risk and make things possible.. Jaimie Johnston points out that people often want innovation, but they want it to be tried and tested, without extra risk.They want a sophisticated way of delivering, but through an existing framework, an existing set of contracts, an existing set of contractual terms.. “No one doubts that you can deliver an asset using some of these technologies, he says, “but it's the framework of procurement methodology and contracts, and IP, and warranties and insurances - all those other things that need to change.”.
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