There are multiple benefits to promoting a national-scale retrofit of existing buildings.

It is easy, especially as a student only recently starting your journey in architecture, to get stuck by working hard on your own and only relying on yourself in improving your design work.This is when the crits force you to step out of your own 'bubble' and explain your thought processes and ideas to others.

As a result, you will understand its weaknesses and strengths and gain the insight of your critics from an outside view; things that might be obvious but as you have been too close to your own work, you have failed to see yourself.After having experienced a number of crits, you will become increasingly independent in seeing your work through other people's points of views.This has definitely helped me develop into a better designer; allowing yourself to be critical and realising this critical mindset is what will make you a better designer.. BW: What's the worse thing about them?.

M: Crits can definitely cause a lot of stress and nervosity, but as you go through your studies you start getting used to the format of presenting your work and understand what is expected of you, which makes the experience much more enjoyable and rewarding.Students sometimes wrongly think of crits as an occasion for your tutors to tell you everything you've done wrong, but should instead be seen as an opportunity to discuss the project and its aims objectively.. BW: What one piece of advice would you give to an architecture student prepping for their crit?.

M: I would probably say it's incredibly important to have a plan on how you will be presenting your work.

Don't forget you will be presenting in front of people who may have never seen your work before, so be clear and to the point.Provide instant pricing for the most standard items, with other orders priced in hours.

Ensure data security while also capturing appropriate data to fuel the application (in time) of machine learning and AI to help with pricing and pipeline prediction.. Obviously, this is a complex challenge.It raises a whole range of issues that would need resolving regarding insurances, warranties, IP, etc.

And there is the big question of who would own the marketplace?Ideally, this would be a neutral broker, such as Government.