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.

在巨大的破坏之中可能会出现更大的机会。Covid-19 对我们使用英国建筑（“建筑环境”）的方式造成了巨大的破坏。数千家企业暂时或永久关闭了办公室。 “被迫”在家工作的人们发现他们的工作效率与在办公室时一样高，而他们的雇主正在重新考虑他们对办公空间（大小、位置、设施）的需求。在某些情况下，根本没有办公室；在其他地方，则是偶尔举行团队会议的办公室。由于购物者和食客选择在线和送货上门，而且午餐时间购物的办公室工作人员减少，零售商、餐馆、咖啡馆和咖啡店正在关闭门店。其中的机会是，许多组织（包括英国政府）拥有或运营英国建筑环境的公司正在重新思考他们现在如何处理公司不想租赁的办公楼和商业园区，以及日益失去更多租户的商业街和购物中心。这个机会实际上是“重新想象我们如何使用英国的建筑环境”。该项目将提供一种工具，可以快速、轻松地显示英国任何建筑物或区域的潜在用途。它将有助于回答“我们可以用这座建筑/空间做什么”的问题。这就是我们的建议。我们将构建一个可点击的地图，根据一系列用户选择的标准对英国的每个位置进行“评分”。它将结合（例如）每个地点当前和计划的宽带速度，结合国家统计局、土地登记处和地方议会信息，以及我们自己的 TravelTime 服务区域（“正常”和“新冠病毒安全”） ' 旅程）。该工具将易于使用，因此不仅可供地理信息专家使用，而且用户可以在我们将创建的算法的指导下选择/取消选择不同的数据集。它将把大量数据转化为可操作的信息。我们将这个项目称为“重新想象英国的建筑环境”（或 RIBE），因为这就是它所实现的。例如，两个空置购物中心的业主可能会发现，其中一个地点最好重新用作经济适用房（该工具显示该地点靠近学校、医疗设施以及该地区经济适用房的短缺）；另一个地点可能最适合作为仓库（该工具显示了其出行时间覆盖区域和靠近主要公路/铁路/机场以及附近合适劳动力的可用性）。重新考虑办公空间需求的企业可以找到一个新的/较小的场地，所有团队都可以偶尔（但不是每天）通过快速宽带到达，并通过新冠病毒安全的旅行方式到达。他们的员工可以看到新的居住区域，如果他们只是偶尔通勤的话，可能会更远。这样的工具现在还不存在——但有了这笔拨款，我们可以建造它，并重新构想如何使用英国建造的工具环境。