Our approach and capabilities

In the end, his team used 3D modelling to help them identify the buildings above 18 metres, but many of them turned out to be private buildings, making it necessary to link with Land Registry and Companies House in order to find and contact the owners to obtain the data.

‘Can we do this?’ must become, ‘should we do this?’.One helpful way to approach things is to consider projects as having both a problem space and a solution space.

It’s important not to let our ideas about solutions become too fixed, too soon.The problem may not always be perfectly understood when we begin.People are often in a rush to move ahead, but it’s worth spending time to explore problems fully.

The better the problem is understood, the better the outcome will be.The first idea to come to mind isn’t always the best solution.

We need to really, fully understand the goal, and then explore ideas around that.

This process drives maximum value solutions.. Chip Thinking®️ transforms construction projects.The most significant and perhaps difficult question needed to be addressed in every project is: how can we not build things we don’t really need even if they have a financial return?

A factory in Japan was due for closure and demolition as it no longer met the requirements for withstanding an earthquake after rules were changed following the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.Studies to look at remediating the buildings had suggested the need to cease operations for 18 months, meaning the solution was unviable.

Although the client was looking for the most efficient replacement factory, the Design to Value approach – combined with clever thinking and seismic modelling – came up with a solution to support the existing building.This eradicated the need to replace or shut down the operation, saving the client more than £120 million – not to mention tonnes of embedded and emitted carbon in the construction of a new asset..