Re-Imaging the UK's Built Environment

重新想象英国的建筑环境

• 批准号: 81795
• 金额: $ 21.91万
• 依托单位: TRAVELTIME TECHNOLOGIES LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=81795
• 关键词: Re; Imaging; UK; Built; Environment

In the midst of great disruption can come an even greater opportunity.Covid-19 has created a massive disruption in how we use the UK's buildings (the 'built environment'). Thousands of businesses have closed their offices -- either temporarily or permanently. People 'forced' to work from home have found they are as productive as when they were in an office and their employers are rethinking their need for office space (size, location, facilities). In some cases, no office at all; in others, an office for occasional team meetings. Retailers, restaurants, cafes, and coffee shops are closing outlets as shoppers and diners opt for online and home delivery, and there are fewer office workers for lunchtime purchases.The opportunity within this is that many organisations (including the UK Government) who own or operate the UK's built environment are rethinking what they now do with the office blocks and business parks that companies don't want to lease, and the high streets and shopping malls that losing more tenants by the day. The opportunity is to literally to 're-imagine how we use the UK's built environment'This project will deliver a tool to quickly and easily display the potential uses for any building or area in the UK. It will help answer the question, 'what can we do with this building/space'. And that's our proposal.We'll build a clickable map to 'score' every location in the UK on a range of user-selected criteria. It'll combine (for example) the current and planned Broadband speeds for every location, combined with Office of National Statistics, Land Registry, and Local council info, as well as our own TravelTime catchment areas (both 'normal' and 'covid safe' journeys). The tool will be easy to use, thus available to more than just Geographic Information Specialists and it'll be possible for users to select / deselect different data sets guided by an algorithm we'll create. It will turn a mass of data into actionable information.We call this project 'Re-Imagining the UK's Built Environment' (or RIBE) because that's what it will enable. For example, the owner of two empty shopping malls could see that one site might be best re-purposed as affordable housing (the tool displayed the site's proximity to schools, health facilities and the shortage of affordable housing in the area); the other site might be best suited as a warehouse (the tool displayed its travel time catchment area and proximity to main road / rail /airports and the availability of a nearby suitable labour force). A business rethinking their need for office space could find a site for a new / smaller venue that all the team can reach occasionally (but not daily) with fast broadband and accessible via covid-safe forms of travel. Their staff could see new areas to live, maybe further away if they only have an occasional commute.Such a tool doesn't exist today -- but with this grant, we can build it and enable the reimagining of how to use the UK's built environment.

在巨大的破坏中，可能会带来更大的机会。Covid-19在我们如何使用英国建筑物（“建筑环境”）方面造成了巨大的破坏。成千上万的企业暂时或永久关闭了办公室。人们“被迫”在家工作，发现他们的生产力与在办公室里时一样富有成效，他们的雇主正在重新思考他们对办公空间的需求（尺寸，位置，设施）。在某些情况下，根本没有办公室；在其他情况下，偶尔举行的团队会议办公室。 Retailers, restaurants, cafes, and coffee shops are closing outlets as shoppers and diners opt for online and home delivery, and there are fewer office workers for lunchtime purchases.The opportunity within this is that many organisations (including the UK Government) who own or operate the UK's built environment are rethinking what they now do with the office blocks and business parks that companies don't want to lease, and the high streets and shopping malls that losing more tenants by the 天。机会是从字面上看我们如何使用英国建筑环境的方式来构想这个项目将提供一种工具，以快速，轻松地显示英国任何建筑物或地区的潜在用途。它将有助于回答一个问题：“我们该如何处理这个建筑物/空间”。这就是我们的建议。我们将在一系列用户选择的标准上构建可点击的地图，以“为”英国的每个位置进行评分。它将（例如）将每个位置的当前和计划的宽带速度结合在一起，并结合国家统计，土地注册表和地方议会信息的办公室，以及我们自己的旅行时间集水区（“正常”和“ Covid Safe”之旅）。该工具将易于使用，因此不仅可以为地理信息专家提供，而且用户可以选择 /取消选择不同的数据集，该数据集由我们创建的算法指导。它将将大量数据变成可行的信息。我们将此项目称为“重新想象英国的建筑环境”（或RIBE），因为这就是它将启用的内容。例如，两个空旷的购物中心的所有者可以看到，最好将一个网站重新使用为负担得起的住房（该工具显示了该网站与学校，医疗设施和该地区负担得起的住房短缺的距离）；另一个站点最适合用作仓库（该工具显示了其旅行时间流域区域，并且靠近主要道路 /铁路 /机场以及附近合适的劳动力）。重新思考他们对办公空间的需求的企业可以找到一个新的 /较小的场地的网站，所有团队偶尔（但不是每天）都可以通过快速宽带到达，并可以通过共同安全的旅行形式到达。他们的员工可以看到新的领域要居住，也许只有偶尔上下班时就可以更远。