Mayor of London Launches Housing Design App to Transform Construction

In order to assist the city of London and encourage constructions after Covid-19, the Mayor of London, with tech-led design practice Bryden Wood and leading residential consultancy Cast, have launched a new version of the housing design app PRiSM. Using the latest digital technology and data to help design and build manufactured homes, the freely available application will allow users to share expertise and use technology to transform the design process and get the city building the homes Londoners need.

Available at a city-wide level, PRiSM “is the latest development in London’s homebuilding strategy and the next step towards the technology and training that City Hall’s Covid-19 Housing Delivery Taskforce called for in July”. London, the first city in the world to make a freely available app of this kind, is hoping through this technology to encourage modern methods of construction systems. Originally developed in 2019, in collaboration with the Mayor of London and residential consultancy, Cast, the app will also help develop a certain type of housing suitable for many sites across London. In fact, L&Q, the leading charitable housing association, residential developer, and co-founder of PRiSM 1.0, has been using the app in-house for the last year.