is an essential tool to help the built environment create coordinated consensus and do more to stop runaway climate change.

We could design these for a 100-year total life span, while the use of standardised components would make an interior refit possible every five to ten years.In its initial configuration a building might function as an office block, but components could be taken out and the building changed into a residential building or school.

At the end of its life, the various standardised components would be recycled, reused or redeployed, creating a circular economy.As the Internet of Things evolves and built assets become smarter, gathering increasing amounts of data, they could become self-optimising, intelligent buildings – recognising the need for a change in air or lighting levels.Ultimately, this type of data would then feed back into the design process itself, creating an open-ended process of continual improvement, and contributing to the next generation of components.. Our sustainable future.

Of course, the most pressing, current question is: how do we make a planet which sustainably supports 11.5 billion people?Population growth coupled with the required infrastructure will generate massive amounts of carbon.

We must find ways to deliver what we need using much less.

Optimisation of materials, better control of logistics, automation in construction, fewer people on site – all of these factors will help to create an overall lower carbon version of the built environment.a multi-dimensional and fluid matrix of dependencies and consequences.

No element can be viewed or managed in isolation..But over a number of decades, the process of delivering built assets has become fragmented.

Responsibility, risk and reward are increasingly split among an array of organisations whose interests are not aligned, and whose view of a project is unhelpfully narrow.. As a result, value is diluted at every stage and clients end up with built assets that are simply not as good as they should be..There is a better way, and that is to Design to Value (DtV).. Design to Value.