The MoJ was, for example, the pathfinder department for Government adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and lean construction.. Standardised solutions.
Clearly, no prison design concept will inherently rehabilitate people.‘Buildings don’t heal people; people heal people.’ However, design choices can support positive social interactions and preclude or reduce negative interactions..
The design aspects that support this include:.Facilitating contact with family and society.A normalising environment.
Appropriate levels of autonomy, while recognising the need to maintain prisoner and staff safety.Importance of mobile and static technology.
Green, clean, tidy spaces.
Flexible, multi-use buildings to support education and work-centric activity.If the construction process can be transformed into the streamlined and predictable assembly of pre-manufactured parts, combined with on-site construction processes that are carefully managed to add the maximum value, much greater productivity can result.. To give a slightly left-field example, consider a circus tent.
Typically, these large structures are put up overnight by a small team of trained operatives.In a budget-conscious industry, every hour counts, so assembly is planned to be as quick as possible, and disassembly is just as quick.
It would be even quicker if the tent was pre-erected, of course, but this doesn’t make sense from a transportation and logistics perspective.Instead, they use a component kit-of-parts that is easily handled and takes up very little space during transportation.