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I caught up with her to find out why, for best effect, architects should be incorporating M&E and Sustainability strategies as part of their initial design.. IP: Tell us about your work with Manchester School of Architecture.. HH: I’m tutoring 5th year students who are doing their Part 2, MArch.It’s through one of the ateliers called PRAXXIS, which is focused on inclusivity in design.

A lot of the briefs the students are given involve getting different parts of society to live and work together.At the moment, they are working on an existing building in Hulme that hasn’t been used in quite a few years.They’ve got to retain part of the facade and completely build a new building inside it.

It needs to have a cafe and offices — it’s a mixed use type building aimed at supporting the community.I do group work with them and help them work out how to incorporate all the M&E services into their building, but also give them a focus on sustainable design.

Mostly, it’s trying to get them to think about getting adequate daylight in, which is quite interesting with the facade they’ve got because they have to reuse it, so they don’t have many options to make the windows bigger.

They’ve got to think of a more interesting way of doing it.If we truly aim to create a better future for construction, we must first recognise that implementing a new way of working will require a process of continual learning and progress.

We need to be documenting, capturing, sharing and improving our processes, not just finishing a project with relief and moving to the next one.Approaching our processes from a mindset of constant questioning and exploration, with a goal of deeper understanding, is what really gets people thinking and seeing things differently.

This is how we’ll create real change.. Kit-of-parts and the Value Toolkit.When the Construction Innovation Hub began, the intention was for a project management strategy focused on iteration and development.