‘That is so cool.’ She was also attracted to being part of a wider community of artists and designers.

I wanted work experience and an income, not a loan, so I applied for an Advanced Level Digital Delivery Apprenticeship through www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship.”.What do you do at Bryden Wood?.

“I am what’s called a BIM (Buildings Information Modelling) Coordinator, which means I digitally design and deliver building services in the Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) Engineering department.The 3D design models I create contain all the data that’s needed.So you can see not just how an assembly looks, but how it will operate as well.

The M&E models can be combined with mechanical, structural and architectural models to make a complete “virtual” building.That lets us see how systems interacts with other aspects of the design, and also allows us to assess compliance.”.

How do you create the models?.

“It’s all done in software suites which I learnt to use at Bryden Wood.One challenge surrounding the issue is that bilateral sharing arrangements can actually create a significant amount of difficulty for other people.

Sharp says that what we really need is something more free-flowing, and adds that we should be nudging the market in the right direction as it develops so that we end up with an optimally connected set of systems..However, we’re also going to need to definitively demonstrate that the sharing of data will lead to capturable benefits, because such benefits are distributed, and until we demonstrate that, people won’t be motivated to take things forward.

We want the people who invest to continue to invest.Sharp points out that we use a lot of energy to make water, and a lot of water to make energy.