Bryden Wood’s Head of Sustainability, Helen Hough, has been leading the embodied carbon workstream for the past year.
Russell asks you to imagine that you have a robot looking after your children.You give it the clear purpose of keeping the children safe and fed with home cooked food.
All sounds great.The robot goes to the cupboard and fridge and sees that there is no food in the house.Then it notices the family dog…..
These ideas and discussions are vital to the safe development of AI in pursuit of the betterment of all people and the planet but they hold absolutely true for human organisations..Design to Value.
book, the idea of the reductionist “brief” is challenged.
The book poses questions to the designer: Do we really spend the time to look carefully at the purpose?It also includes details of the technical performance of the physical components that make them..
This is a key step in defining a Platform but also in creating a digital marketplace.Specifications like these provide a precise and consistent brief for manufacturers to respond to.
They provide an objective way to compare and choose between products.. As we move away from procuring for lowest cost and start to make more value-based judgements, this becomes even more important.One of the Construction Innovation Hub’s core themes is Value: ‘driving better social, environmental and economic outcomes through value-based decision making’.. Meeting the technical requirements would be the entry criteria for a vendor, evidenced through aspects such as CQP (.
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