While working on projects funded by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Ricketts sought to avoid the possibility of duplicating work, or becoming an accidental blocker to the process.
The key benefits we bring to contractors and projects are:.Adjust role to fit actual project needs (integration and gap filling).
Integrated detailing and performance design (useful version of 'façade engineering').Focus on fabrication and construction.'Architectural standardisation'.
BIM link to factories and supply chain.Realistic Value-Engineering Summary.
Reduced subcontractor risk and reduced packages costs.
Reduced and simplified subcontractor detailing.We repeat this sequence of steps until everyone involved is satisfied that all relevant expertise has been brought to bear on the solution and that the solution fully addresses all aspects of the problem.
This iterative process might appear familiar, but what makes the Design to Value method different is that the focus is not simply on developing a detailed description of a solution to allow someone to build it.It is to represent the evolving design in a way that is relevant to the stakeholders so they can understand the choices made and judge whether the design meets their needs.
This is a unique advantage of our Chip Thinking®️ process.. Rather than showing increasingly detailed plans and elevations, we represent the solution in terms of what it does to solve the client’s problem.For a prison that needs to be more rehabilitative, this means: showing what is visible from where; how activities are distributed across the buildings and the site; how the buildings are zoned and controlled to allow free movement while controlling who goes where.