Still, as Wood reflects, there isn’t anything ‘utilitarian’ about Circle Reading.
At the end of the presentation, she asked, “how much of this can you use for the next project?”.The answer: “None of it.”.
It’s not acceptable, she says, addressing the position of the serial owners who are building hospital after hospital, school after school.Owners who are spending billions of dollars.. “What owner in their right mind is going to spend money and not get consistency of any data,” she says, “to learn from, reuse and evolve, to be more operationally efficient?How could that be acceptable?”.
“We find the same thing”, says Jaimie Johnston.“It's serial custo.
mers who are dissatisfied with either the quality they're getting or the value they're getting.”.
Johnston says that the biggest value driver of them all is climate change and carbon.A beautiful, relaxing place to stay for people who want to solve problems together.
This could be done over breakfast, while swimming in the pool, formally in a meeting room, on the terrace, in the bar.Collisions of people and ideas in a setting where the mundane can be left in the lobby.. A frivolous thought.
Well may be, but we did not lose sight of what we felt were the opportunities of place-making and culture setting in being an important element in solving some of the big problems in the world of infrastructure.. Zoom forward several years and the moment seemed right.Work and projects in a number of business sectors had demonstrated that there is an imperative to be able to industrialise technologies faster and to do so sustainably and cost effectively.