A key aspect of PETP was to develop standardised solutions at a range of scales that could be deployed across multiple buildings and sites, from components and rooms to entire building types and continues through the new capacity programme(s).

A progressive regime.The PETP team viewed emerging potential design solutions through two key lenses: effectiveness and efficiency.

‘Effectiveness’ is the ability of a design to deliver the required rehabilitative outcome, while ‘efficiency’ is the total whole life cost required to achieve this outcome..This collaborative assessment process included data visualisations and the transparent, objective evaluation of different potential solutions.The team was able to balance the different and often competing interests of stakeholders using a range of techniques, including use of Virtual Reality (VR) to simulate how the new building would work and help them understand and contribute to the design..

Gathering feedback from groups including prison staff and those delivering services in prisons gained buy-in and approval from all levels – from senior policy makers to operational staff – and meant we were able to demonstrate best overall value for money.. Translating evidence into design.All of this evidence gathering, consultation and collaboration had profound effect on the design:.

Significant emphasis has been put on visiting facilities.

We know from the.It was the MTC that first introduced us to the concept of Platforms.

The MOJ wanted to design a new type of prison focused on rehabilitation.We realised that the manufacturing component of the construction process could be taught to serving prisoners, helping to train them in marketable skills for use on release, and aiding rehabilitation.

We also realised that the sort of P-DfMA systems we were designing for the MOJ could then be transferred across to other government infrastructure projects, thereby facilitating the wider adoption of these beneficial, lean construction processes.. Bryden Wood published the first book on platform design in 2017 (.new updated edition of Platforms book available to download here. )