Using Chips enabled the success of the Parma project, and structural modelling also enabled design simplification and a quicker timescale.
Putting safety, security and rehabilitation at the heart of prisons.Creating more flexible space for educational, training and rehabilitation outcomes.
The Programme was also a way to build on the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) recognised role as innovative leaders in public sector design and construction.The MoJ was, for example, the pathfinder department for Government adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and lean construction.. Standardised 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.The cycle of re-offending is a huge cost to the UK economy.
A 2016 study of a group of offenders who re-offended within 12 months of release from prison estimated that the total economic and social cost of reoffending was £18.1 billion..The Prison Estate Transformation Programme (PETP) was a programme of 10,000 ‘new for old’ adult prison places across six sites (plus one new house block) at an estimated value £1.3 billion.
The full PETP programme was retired and superseded by a new programme, but, at the time, it provided an opportunity to develop a new type of prison environment using a platform based Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) approach – one whose core purpose was to increase the likelihood of rehabilitation and reduce re-offending rates.This was used in the design of the two prisons being delivered under PETP (HMP Five Wells at Wellingborough and at Glen Parva) and formed the basis for the current capacity programme.