ABSTRACT
Thames Tideway and High Speed 2 are projects that aim to deal with the ever-increasing demand for urbanisation and the declining reliance on the automobile. Major cities now lobby through their metropolitan mayors for greater infrastructure funds, realising that connectivity is a pivotal catalyst for private investment and development. This need has resulted in new complex, mixed, multi-tenure building types emerging, typically situated around major infrastructure nodes. The architect is now in a pivotal role; arguably the only professional within the construction industry to comprehend the complexities of implementing the policies, considering not only the contextual challenges of creating new parts of the city but also the viability and new methods of construction. For developments in constrained, urban environments, 4D Building information modeling technologies can be utilised to rehearse the sequencing of manufacture, logistics and assembly prior to materials being delivered on site.
