As we’ve waited for a successful vaccine to emerge, there have been over 200 in development, all at different stages with different probabilities of success.

When we are creating plans, we like to work in three dimensions from the very early part of the project.Chips help speed up the process, because we can move chunks of the design around very quickly and keep data associated with them.

We can do things like automate routing of certain utilities, based on the properties of the Chips.And that enables us to try lots of different options in a short amount of time.As mentioned, this is a key element of our Design to Value approach, as it enables us to get closer to an optimum solution..

Unfortunately, we sometimes find ourselves in the conventional engineering situation of having to limit the number of options that we look at because we haven't got the time or the resources to look at too many.Clearly, it is fine to narrow down a set of options on a rational basis.

But if it's simply that we don't have time, we are at risk of staying away from the optimum solution.

That means more cost and more time which, ultimately, is going to affect the patient who is at the end of that supply chain.They went into planning to do the subjective work, and to do the planning..

While working on the Reducing Invalid Planning Applications project (RIPA), Ricketts began to map all of the legislation and planning policy, turning it into rules-based code.He wondered whether it could be used to map against BIM models, in order to extract all of the relevant information that planners need to assess and develop a decision.

The aim would be to extract only the relevant pieces of information, out of the hundreds of thousands of bits of information in a BIM, leading to the question of how to present it for successful interpretation.This is where his second project, Back-office Planning Service (BoPS), comes in.