This project has concrete and practical deliverables, therefore, but will also make a significant contribution towards a digitally enabled development industry.

Our PRiSM and SEiSMIC design apps are already in use for housing and school design, respectively.We have also created an algorithmic, computational design system called Rapid Engineering Model (REM) for Highways England.

REM enables the early design stages of Smart Motorways Programme (SMP) schemes to be designed automatically.In addition, we’ve devised a similar, digital framework for Network Rail.This variety of uses demonstrates the broad capabilities of these digital design tools, which are beneficial not only for buildings, but also for linear infrastructure on a greater, geospatial, country-wide level.. Our experience here tells us that rather than designing things from scratch in the future, more and more work will be done using algorithmic design.

For example, PRiSM allows us to generate a design very quickly.We can then use a range of simulation tools to optimise and refine the design, in order to deliver the best possible solution for a specific site.

We are able to consider a variety of architectural and environmental factors: energy balance, people movements, overshadowing, architectural aesthetics, and placemaking.

This gives us much better, and much more considered, designs at site level.. Additionally, our work on REM teaches us that if the algorithm creates an unusual outcome, the solution is to fix the ruleset, not the algorithmic model.It is not sustainable, or desirable, to continue building more and more traditional data centres.

By ensuring that every element of these crucial facilities is viewed as an integral part of the whole, and by optimising all of them together, we will continue to work with our clients to ensure that the future of this market is a positive one.Jaimie Johnston MBE., Head of Global Systems at Bryden Wood, hosts.

, Founding Director and co-CEO of.Kirsty's extensive background in climate scale solutions and nuclear energy advocacy brings a fresh perspective on decarbonising the world's toughest sectors.