{"id":95306,"date":"2021-06-28T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T10:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=95306"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T10:20:51","slug":"designs-engineering-housebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/designs-engineering-housebuilding\/95306\/","title":{"rendered":"Designs on good engineering in housebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Good design is paramount in engineering, says Andrew Fairburn, director of civil and structural engineers <a href=\"https:\/\/rwo.group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RWO<\/a>, who believes success lies in creating sustainable places where people want to live and build a home<\/h2>\n<p>Well-engineered housing can be empowering, making people feel safe, secure and at home. And this extends to the wider environment and infrastructure, which surrounds and envelops us all &#8211; from the fundamental layout of streets and pavements to the provision of useful local facilities and community services.<\/p>\n<h3>Balancing the demands of design and engineering<\/h3>\n<p>It may seem a simple formula yet it\u2019s surprising how easy it is to get this wrong. In balancing the demands of design and engineering, I would argue more thought needs to be given to the type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/digital-technologies-upskilling\/93962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">structures and urban spaces<\/a> that we want to create. How will people live in the houses we build and how will they interact with space to create a home.<\/p>\n<p>Those involved in property development need to be far more robust in answering some fundamentals if we are to deliver better housing. Who is this development for? Who will want to live here? And why will they want to come here? Indeed, far more needs to be invested in thinking long and hard about what should be built and why.<\/p>\n<p>Effective design in engineering can generate increased value throughout the entire property development process, differentiating the perfunctory from the exceptional. In simple fiscal terms, it can help to deliver more value and return on investment for developers and housebuilders in a competitive sector reawakening post-lockdown. It doesn\u2019t have to cost more as &#8220;affordable quality&#8221; can be secured through thinking differently or a more creative approach to problem solving.<\/p>\n<p>It can start inside the home with efficient, well thought through spatial arrangements while the health and wellbeing of property owners can be enriched by the internal environment, so flooding spaces with natural sunlight will contribute to wellbeing, while designing in good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/ventilation-cuts-covid-risk\/93214\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">air quality and ventilation<\/a> will also help &#8211; energy-efficient build minimises the running costs, improves affordability and minimises carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about how homes can be engineered better to ensure they meet changing needs and more resilient to changing tastes, mores and the ravages of time is also paramount. Similarly, good properties need to incorporate well-engineered elements, which make them more adaptable to warmer winters and wetter summers as we face inevitable climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Schemes that get the design-engineering balance right feature a mix of factors but it\u2019s also important to consider creating a buzz about a place. For example, smaller sites can create a better use of space with appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Such schemes, which feature an element of what is euphemistically called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/successful-placemaking\/90828\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">placemaking<\/a>&#8221; throughout all the development stages, can transcend other developments. Effective placemaking has to be in engineered from the outset \u2013 it\u2019s hard to create once a project is complete \u2013 and must be considered as part of a wider community consultation process, contributing to the long-term happiness and security of residents.<\/p>\n<h3>Raising the standards<\/h3>\n<p>Developers can undoubtedly facilitate better engineering through improved engagement with the customer and wider communities but working collaboratively to test new technologies and techniques to improve build quality, while finding different ways of working, that involve a wider range of stakeholders and skills earlier on, also plays a part.<\/p>\n<p>Government and, by implication, local authorities need to continually press to raise standards as they balance the demands of quality and long-term sustainability with speed and expediency of delivery within the design and build process.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear that we all need to think about the long-term legacy for those who will live in the houses we build if we are to deliver superbly engineered homes. Improved engagement with the customer helps, as will better collaboration across the industry\u2019s professional sectors and trade bodies, but we must not overlook the great strides that have been achieved in engineering as part of the design and planning process too.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the clamour to build the quantity and quality of new homes that the country desperately needs &#8211; 300,000 units per year &#8211; it remains as important as ever to continually strive improve, innovate, and think beyond the traditional and conventional.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this might involve more development of hitherto \u2018untouchable\u2019 green belt land as the opportunities to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/national-brownfield-institute\/86463\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brownfield sites<\/a> dry up. Construction sustainability also offers engineering opportunity and those who show leadership in this arena will contribute to securing future viability and margins.<\/p>\n<p>We are seeing increasingly high standards of building efficiency and sustainable methods of construction being specified &#8211; something that will increase as innovative building engineering solutions continue to come on stream. It\u2019s certainly a bold agenda but sitting alongside a more forward-looking vision from local authorities, it\u2019s certainly one I believe can deliver change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95307 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Andrew-Fairburn-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Andrew-Fairburn-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Andrew-Fairburn-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Andrew-Fairburn-696x537.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Andrew-Fairburn-544x420.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Andrew-Fairburn-610x471.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Andrew-Fairburn.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Andrew Fairburn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rwo.group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RWO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>+44 (0)113 532 3500<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rwo.group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.rwo.group<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RWOAssociates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RWOAssociates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/rwo-associates-ltd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RWO Associates Ltd<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good design is paramount in engineering, says Andrew Fairburn, director of civil and structural engineers RWO, who believes success lies in creating sustainable places where people want to live and build a home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[594,636,572,579,90731,952],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-building-design","8":"tag-engineering","9":"tag-housebuilding","10":"tag-infrastructure","11":"tag-pbc-today-august-2021","12":"tag-planning"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Designs on good engineering in housebuilding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Good design is paramount in engineering, says Andrew Fairburn, who believes success lies in creating sustainable places where people want to build a home\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/designs-engineering-housebuilding\/95306\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Designs on good engineering in housebuilding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Good design is paramount in engineering, says Andrew Fairburn, who believes success lies in creating sustainable places where people want to build a home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/designs-engineering-housebuilding\/95306\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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