These countries have a simultaneous demand for both energy growth and decarbonisation, meaning that they’re in very serious need of clean energy solutions..
A key aspect of PETP was to develop standardised solutions at a range of scales that could be deployed across multiple buildings and sites, from components and rooms to entire building types and continues through the new capacity programme(s).There were many reasons for this approach:.
Standard solutions allow for a greater level of design and refinement – if a solution is going to be used multiple times then the benefit of good design is multiplied and amplified.It afforded us a far greater level of stakeholder engagement and buy-in than we would typically achieve for a one-off design (see below).This resulted in, for example, designs that were highly optimised in terms of layouts, space allocation, adjacencies and functional flows – which could then be deployed across the PETP programme and wider prison estate.
It creates further efficiencies.For example, the standard building types can be used across a range of sites.
For each, the site-specific design activities can be focused on the placement of the buildings relative to each other, arranging orientation to minimise overlooking and overheating (for both the comfort of prisoners and to reduce energy use), maximise views of landscape, and so on.
It contributes to overall better design and allows designers to focus more of their efforts on solving the specific challenges relating to a particular site and context.Decent staff facilities.
A progressive regime.The PETP team viewed emerging potential design solutions through two key lenses: effectiveness and efficiency.
‘Effectiveness’ is the ability of a design to deliver the required rehabilitative outcome, while ‘efficiency’ is the total whole life cost required to achieve this outcome..This collaborative assessment process included data visualisations and the transparent, objective evaluation of different potential solutions.