There is a race on to develop social value metrics with traction right across the built environment, measures that can readily be understood and used for procurement within the public sector and be fed into a variety of digital models.

We live in a culture of audit, meaning that the financial bottom line takes precedence because it is easy to measure.

The transformation of the construction sector into a data-driven environment has taken a while to get started, but is now happening at a shocking speed. Practices that are not taking control of their data at this time will be playing catch-up (if only data management were taught in schools of architecture – something we plan to introduce in our new practice research-based MArch at the University of Reading).

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