Lincoln points out that multi-storey or retrofitted data centres may soon become more common, especially when operators seek low-latency connections in city centres..

One of the primary products to be manufactured in the factory was bottled water.The team discovered two important things: the first was that the energy costs to manufacture the product would be high; the second was that the sale price for bottled water in Africa is low.

This meant that, ultimately, the product itself was prohibitively unprofitable, and the entire venture ended up being deemed a nonviable investment.The company decided not to build the factory at all..In other words, in this particular case, not building was deemed the most valuable thing.

Design to Value thinking requires a change to the way we approach projects.‘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.By digitally modelling the design against the given brief/constraints using Chips, we can quickly see how well the design will work, and what we can adapt to fit the wide range of needs and constraints involved.

This ability to adapt the configuration of a design would be impossible in a design expressed as 100% single components..The ‘local’ design is then focused on ground conditions, utilities, infrastructure, placemaking, flows of people etc..

Figure 2 Example configurations of healthcare Chips.Read more about our.