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We currently employ apprentices at all levels: including those working towards an HND and university degree.. Our first apprentice, Kane Axten, tells us about his time here.. Why an apprenticeship, not university?.

Although it sounds like a straightforward task, in reality it presented some unexpectedly complex questions and issues to surmount.What is a building?

Is it the postal address?The single address with three blocks in it?.Next came the question of how best to approach obtaining the information.

Ricketts says local authorities were using a combination of approaches, from trawling through records (building control, planning and housing), to looking at GIS mapping, and even cycling the borough.In the end, his team used 3D modelling to help them identify the buildings above 18 metres, but many of them turned out to be private buildings, making it necessary to link with Land Registry and Companies House in order to find and contact the owners to obtain the data.

He adds that it’s difficult to make sense of so much information in a single Excel spreadsheet, and says it ended up multiplying exponentially..

Although Ricketts is keen to begin to harness the benefits and opportunities that will come from digitising the planning system, he agrees with Sharp’s observations about security and the possibility of accidentally sharing too much.We have embedded the process into our own management systems and the outputs we produce.

We update these continually so that we capture learnings and leverage them to improve the results of the projects that follow.We train all of our teams in the approach and the senior management team helps in using it throughout.

We apply the principles of our Design to Value approach internally as well as externally, because we know the exceptional value it creates..If you'd like to continue to learn about our Design to Value approach and Modern Methods of Construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.