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Analysing this data can then help not only to understand how a supply chain or site might perform, but also to anticipate bottlenecks early and mitigate them.

While they’re good at interpreting it, things can take a long time depending on the size of the development.Ricketts says he’s spent time with case officers who’ve spent two days with a calculator trying to work out daylight sunlight calculations and viability.

He points out that these people didn’t go into planning to do those things.They went into planning to do the subjective work, and to do the planning..While working on the Reducing Invalid Planning Applications project (RIPA), Ricketts began to map all of the legislation and planning policy, turning it into rules-based code.

He wondered whether it could be used to map against BIM models, in order to extract all of the relevant information that planners need to assess and develop a decision.The aim would be to extract only the relevant pieces of information, out of the hundreds of thousands of bits of information in a BIM, leading to the question of how to present it for successful interpretation.

This is where his second project, Back-office Planning Service (BoPS), comes in.

BoPS would take the information and present it to the case officer.Nor do we think that the future of robotics in construction is in building robots to do jobs that we, or they, shouldn’t be doing in the first place.

Technology is not fairy dust that you sprinkle onto a problem to sort it out.You need to assess the entire process and engage actively with technology to see where – or whether – it will add value.

You also have to be open to the very real possibility that its use may fundamentally alter that process for the better.As an industry, we have to get better at creating and sharing data, information and learning.At the moment, we just don’t do that well enough.