Evolving trends in hospital design through evidence-based approach:.

At the moment, we just don’t do that well enough.We have the computing and processing infrastructure to do amazing things with data in the built environment sector, but we have to create it, share it – and use it.. We’re big believers in open source.

We use open source tools and technology in our work and we have built and shared some of our design automation work in the same way, so that other architects and designers can explore, understand, benefit – and hopefully build on – the work that we do.. Whilst technology can bring huge benefits to the construction industry, we also have to be aware of ethical questions around how data is collected and used.We all know that when some of the big tech companies created big data and laid the foundations for many technical advances, they gathered that data in some questionable ways.We now hear people talking about putting tracking devices onto construction workers to record and measure their movements to increase efficiency, or to assess their wellbeing for health and safety purposes – but might these devices also be used to assess work rates and monitor time spent taking a toilet break?.

As an industry, we should also be conscious of how technology moves through society, and the consequences of that.We’ve seen the recent studies showing how Twitter’s face-crop algorithm prioritises white faces and women;.

1. or the issues in 2020 with the UK government’s algorithm for predicting exam results during COVID, which marked down students from disadvantaged areas and backgrounds.. 2.

We’re not suggesting that either of these was deliberate, but what we are saying is that we need to be super-vigilant.I see academics, businesses, and organisations of people focusing on the problems that face us, not just out of good intent but out of facing cold, hard realities.

This is resulting in money, the fuel of the world economy, being slowly but steadily diverted from the old economy to a new one.We are starting to invest in a changing world.

Leaders and regimes will come and go, but this matrix of positive intent and action is what will truly drive the next 50 years..The third reason for hope came to me in maybe the most unexpected place: a two-hour stand in the toilet on a train with five others, due to huge overcrowding.