PRODUCING A SET OF STANDARDISED DESIGNS

摘要

The Test: The government has said it intends to procure standardised designs and specifications "immediately" but there has been no firm plan laid out for how to do this. With many firms in the industry, including Willmott Dixon and Wates, having already launched standardised school designs, and a body of learning gathered from recent school building programmes such as Building Schools for the Future, the government needs to work out how to get the best designs without wasting work already done or incurring unnecessary expense. There is also the problem that many solutions to creating extra school places will lie in extending existing buildings, a process which is harder to standardise.