The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 in Singapore’s foreign workforce shows the need to drive greater productivity while reducing over-reliance on foreign labour is more urgent than ever before.
It was suggested that the DC industry could help focus and accelerate development through the creation of an Industry-Brief defining the market.This idea, of course, would need further collaboration across the DC ecosystem.. To bring the session to a close, there was a round-up of the issues and barriers that need to be solved in the short term.
How to deal with irregular site design, different business drivers and limitations of template designs.How to do the above and meet acceptable price points.How to find sites with reliable power.
How to shorten overall programme durations.How to develop the expertise and constraints of the supply chain, including integrators to get them “on the curve”!.
How to find outlets for waste heat.
How to deal with fragmentation across Europe in regulations/standards.We examine the flows and resources of people through the building, in order to maximise efficiency at every opportunity.
We reduce avoidable travel by designing to adjacencies and linkages wherever they add value – while at the same time understanding the need to keep certain functions, or categories of user, very separate.We include and consider as many variables as we can to make sure that the hospital will function as well as it can.. We produce detailed functional and support diagrams to guide the process.
When these diagrams are agreed with our client, we create spatial diagrams, detailing all required rooms, their shapes and the relations between them.This allows us to engage more specialist stakeholders, and make sure their requirements for each of the rooms are met.. We describe this approach as designing the hospital from the inside out.