Services (heating, cooling, lifts, sprinklers, plumbing, etc) have one of the shortest life expectancies of all elements of the building, due to their moving parts.

Integration Gaps Hinder Progress: Education, Commerce, and Investment are Disconnected:.A fundamental issue is the lack of integration across key areas..

This includes a disconnect between university education and industry needs (e.g., scientists understanding automation and vice versa), and a 'peculiar' investment environment in the UK where there's a significant gap in funding to take intellectual ideas to an investible stage.. 3.Regional Silos and 'Primate City' Structure Impede Network Building:.Although the strategy discusses focusing on industrial clusters, there's a concern that these clusters might become siloed and compete rather than forming a connected network..

The UK's 'primate city' structure, where investment gravitates towards London, also complicates the effective distribution of support and infrastructure for these regional hubs.. 4.Addressing the Productivity Malaise Requires a Shift in Societal Mindset:.

The UK suffers from a widely recognised lack of productivity, and a low uptake of AI and robotics in SMEs..

There's a perceived 'malaise' where society needs to reappraise its relationship with work and effort relative to desired per capita income, moving beyond merely changing environmental conditions to actively fostering growth.. 5.Stripping away previous knowledge, questioning potentially inefficient systems and modalities, is what is needed to allow these kinds of conversations to take place..

This is the challenge to traditional design processes, which can be quite turgid and passive: a brief is stated and a firm contends with whether they can deliver the predefined needs of the client.Interrogating the brief is not part of the process.. Elevating and liberating the brief into a problem statement is an essential part of the work and the design process of Design to Value.

Collaborating to establish a set of working methods, goals and value drivers creates clarity of purpose from the start.It creates opportunity.. To purchase this book, visit., Asia-Pacific Lead at Bryden Wood, talks to.