The standardised ‘kit of parts’ concept helps here too, as a platform-based design can be more readily adapted to tighter sites or existing structures..
It looks at a process from end to end, whether that be a manufacturing process, or a people-driven process, like a hospital.This process is broken down into spaces where key parts of value are added.
This could be a manufacturing step in a factory, or security check in an airport.We call these pieces of the value chain Chips, and strung together they form our process.. Chips provide physicality.They allow engineers to design and simultaneously generate data.
This data can then be used by other departments.For example, finance can use it to determine Cost of Goods, amongst other things.
Chip Thinking®️ brings together different perspectives and allows people to see what an early representation of a project looks like.
It is illuminating, for example, to combine Chip Thinking®️ with other Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) tools, such as discrete event modelling, which enables us to evaluate issues like where goods will move and how long things will take in each step..Sitting with the client and asking questions forms the basis of every project that follows a Design to Value approach.
Rather than proposing a building to a client who in turn decides if they (a) like the idea and (b) can afford it, Design to Value first asks What is it that you need?What are you trying to achieve?
That of course could end up being a building.In this framework, the brief becomes a much more malleable concept.