Prison architecture: rehabilitation and humane design with criminologist Professor Yvonne Jewkes, The University of Bath
construction platforms.
The house block design is the new standard that is being adopted across the planned prison estate expansion and will be used across several sites, both for new prisons and for adding capacity to existing sites.. Impact on wider industry.Through initiatives like the Construction Innovation Hub the UK government is investing significant time and effort into establishing standardised components specifications and even asset types.
PETP program was instrumental in demonstrating the value of this thinking.It was also the programme which first proposed the use of construction Platforms.This idea has now been adopted by the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and is a central focus of the Construction Innovation Hub.. We are both proud and pleased to be part of the gathering momentum around these approaches.
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http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesProfessor Jennifer Whyte.
, a renowned figure in the realm of project leadership and digital transformation in construction, shares her vision for revolutionising construction through leadership, innovation, and a holistic approach to value creation.The internal finishes and walls performed well due to the limited quantity of materials used.
The false ceilings were omitted to reduce materials needed, the curtain walling is self finishing to the inside of the external walls, the building is largely open plan reducing the number of internal walls required and finally the raised flooring is reused from an existing building.The materials specified for the internal wall include recycled materials, reducing their embodied carbon..
Finally, the DfMA approach has optimised the MEP systems, using modular prefabricated units, which reduce the amount of material used.When comparing our results with LETI benchmarks (see below), this is not apparent.