It’s to attract young people and develop their talents that, for the last few years, Bryden Wood has been taking on apprentices.

Ultimately though, we’re making quick progress with safety and security because it sets a whole lot of other things to zero.In the case of the Underground Asset Register, and to some extent the Construction Data Trust, there are certain types of data people are very willing to share, because, for example, everyone wants to help prevent deaths on construction sites.

In these types of examples, governance and transactional issues are less of an issue.However, when trying to make the planning process flow better, or trying to design an integrated transport system, it’s harder to be certain about what gains will be achieved from connecting digital assets.Sharp says that type of understanding is still a long way off.. How long will it take to modernise planning?.

Jack Ricketts says it isn’t currently known how long digitising the planning process will take because of the financial investment required.However, there are plans for an application to Innovate UK and their Smart Grant funding programme.

Of course, digitising the entire planning process is an enormous goal, and for efficiency’s sake, the process will have to begin with a single use case.

Ricketts feels the best and most informative starting point is building safety, highlighting MHCLG’s external wall system survey as a good example of data collection and collation..With all of our Creative Technologies projects and automated design workflows at Bryden Wood, we aim to connect to other pieces of software that may be more proprietary - so that a user can carry on the design process in a more traditional way.

PRiSM is designed to be an additional tool in the kit, one which helps architects and designers do their jobs.It isn’t there to be a threat.

It’s a first step towards a digital planning approach.Aggregating all of these data sets provides more insight into the context in which architects design.