We can do things like automate routing of certain utilities, based on the properties of the Chips.

Digitising the planning system will help us to start producing policies based on real time evidence.Policies could change over a very short time.

Changes to market conditions, developer contributions, or the cost of land could impact the number, or location, of homes originally desired.Digitising planning would keep things much more reliable and up to date..There would also be an opportunity to test more ideas before deciding which policy is the right one, and it’s hoped that by digitising the planning system we’ll also be able to do scenario testing.

A brownfield site map could give a developer a much better sense of what they’re likely to get approved, enabling them to tweak their plans before they approach.This would thin out a lot of the existing legwork and administrative work, speeding everything up.. Establishing rules to support digitisation.

At Bryden Wood, our Creative Technologies team has found that in the process of developing configurators, simply putting the rigour behind what is or isn’t a rule, or what is or isn’t acceptable, is very helpful.

Miranda Sharp says that she’s experienced exactly the same types of issues in the infrastructure space.Sometimes we find something which human expertise has not spotted.

Generative design can create unexpected options with high value.. We are now working on making Chips available to very large numbers of users through a web interface, to use generative design for pharmaceutical plants.We are also associating process simulation data with those Chips, so that we can look at throughput, and use throughput to define what Chips we need..

The Chip as future enabler.We are often asked what ‘Chip’ stands for.