While predominantly focused on front-end design, Alastair has experience coordinating, managing, and delivering facilities through to completion, and uses this experience to better inform early design decisions.Urko joined Bryden Wood in September 2015 after finishing his Master’s degree in Architecture at the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian, Spain.. Urko’s first experience with the company was working on the E5+ Explore Living project, a modular system that gave him a professional answer to his educational background in modular residential building design..

In 2021, Stewart Russell OBE (Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley) in his Reith Lectures expressed some principles that he had co-developed to make the development of AI positive and safe.. Altruism – AI is there solely to improve human outcomes and purpose.Uncertainty – the objectives, purpose and outcomes will remain uncertain.

Learning from humans – there needs to be a dynamic process, constantly checking back and developing understanding.. Why is this important?Russell asks you to imagine that you have a robot looking after your children.You give it the clear purpose of keeping the children safe and fed with home cooked food.

All sounds great.The robot goes to the cupboard and fridge and sees that there is no food in the house.

Then it notices the family dog…..

These ideas and discussions are vital to the safe development of AI in pursuit of the betterment of all people and the planet but they hold absolutely true for human organisations..I’ll develop this much further below, but a digital marketplace for construction would allow clients to publish their requirements for standard components or repeatable designs, for example, and allow a wide range of suppliers to bid to supply them..

This is obviously predicated on consistency of demand; when every construction project is bespoke, it’s impossible for manufacturers (other than material suppliers who make highly standardised, commoditised products like rebar) to develop products that are likely to be used repeatedly.But consistency of demand will come with other forms of progress, like widespread adoption of construction Platforms.

We will come back to this as well..When achieved, this will benefit construction in a range of ways.. Firstly: it would provide greater market transparency and diversify the supply chain, meaning that companies of all sizes could engage with large-scale programmes, in the private and public sectors.. Secondly: late payment (particularly between contractors and their supply chains) has been a well-recognised problem in construction for a few decades.