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agreement—a first and major milestone in Italian history. It’s a collaborative partnership on a scale the likes of which the country has never seen, and which creates the first true innovation district in Italy.
What’s more, a little over two years ago, Lendlease hatched the Federated InnovationTM ecosystem which
now comprises 34 partners across key verticals including: life science and healthcare; energy; PropTech and smart spaces; fintech; mobility and logistics; retail tech; urban digital tech; construction tech; Greentech; security and defense; and agri-food tech and wellbeing.
Collectively, this innovation ecosystem of partners is building ‘an innovation agenda’ and working collaboratively in a bid to transform a colossal site into an unrivalled science, technology and innovation district of international relevance. (Fun fact: it takes 20 minutes to walk from one side to the other!)
To date, the Federated InnovationTM—with its pillars of social innovation, tech innovation and green innovation— has already become a benchmark for future developments at a national level. It’s also creating a new chapter in the world of property and construction.
Setting new design standards – informed by data and powered by Lendlease Podium
In order to make the MIND vision a reality, we need to re-evaluate the current property lifecycle, including the way we design, build, and
As an industry, we’re moving towards an automated and components-based design approach, where we use DfMA methodologies to design and construct better buildings safer, faster and with cost reductions. We’re building a physical studio—Podium MX Studio—that delivers inte- grated design capabilities, bringing together the supply chain through a connected ecosystem of partners. This collaboration allows for co-developing and co-designing of new products, with rapid prototyping—giving us the ability to fast-track development on site.
By learning lessons from the data we generate, we can create better designs, healthier spaces and safer places to build and to live. Put simply, we learn how people behave in this space—and then enact the vision. Ultimately, these lessons learned will ensure MIND becomes the ‘innovative district at human scale’ that it promises to be.
Autonomous Buildings in action
MIND is a showcase project for autonomous
buildings emerging around the world. Autonomous buildings are about the value they create for the people who use them. They are becoming intelligent and smart, thanks to the power of digitization, and transforming the way property and construction industries operate and design. Additionally, an autonomous building learns to adapt and flex to meet the needs of its occupants, without the burden of intrusive technologies—and that’s the vision of MIND.
operate. At Lendlease Digital, we’re forging new design standards and processes to help create places where digital technologies enhance connections, promote the exchange of knowledge and improve people’s lives. Lendlease Podium, our property lifecycle platform, is playing a pivotal part in this project.
Through digitization, we’re using data-driven insights to determine how buildings respond. That means we’re asking, “how are we gaining data from the way people live, the way people move, the way people operate within a space to make sure we’re taking a good design and then making it even better—and improving as we move forward to the next design?”
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