The Prison Estate Transformation Programme (PETP) was a programme of 10,000 ‘new for old’ adult prison places across six sites (plus one new house block) at an estimated value £1.3 billion.
I am sure this is magnified millions of times across the world.They are not naive, most already have served time in industry, but they each hold a set of values which I found profound and uplifting..
The second reason to be hopeful comes whenever I investigate, look into, or hold discussions in and across many spheres.I see and hear stories about people doing great things with an intent of making the world a better, more sustainable place in the most holistic sense.Specifically, I have had meetings with two of the organisations I partner with: my local Watermill Theatre, which, as well as producing truly magical theatre, has an outreach scheme that touches hundreds of lives, and the World Land Trust, which is actively protecting habitat and species diversity around the world.
With both organisations, we are looking at ways to work together to magnify our individual impact..I see academics, businesses, and organisations of people focusing on the problems that face us, not just out of good intent but out of facing cold, hard realities.
This is resulting in money, the fuel of the world economy, being slowly but steadily diverted from the old economy to a new one.
We are starting to invest in a changing world.This type of optimisation will happen simultaneously and in conjunction with the same process being applied to the supporting infrastructure; road, rail, hyperloops, power and water, and other transport and utilities..
Platform Design for better individual assets.We sometimes hear people express concern that Modern Methods of Construction will be the death of good design.
On the contrary, we believe construction Platforms and DfMA will deliver better, more holistically designed, individual assets.Not cookie-cutter buildings.