Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 20
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Increased standardisation in major project design offers cost savings but needs sufficient investment scale.
Conclusion
The IPA told us that increased standardisation of design of some projects can be a helpful way to learn and apply what has worked well. The IPA told us that the schools, 18 Qq 70; Committee of Public Accounts, HS2 and Euston, Tenth Report of Session 2023–24, HC 67, 7 February 2024 19 Qq 39–43; 66–67 20 Q1; C&AG’s Report, paras 1–8, Figure 1 14 Delivering value from government investment in major projects hospitals and prison building programmes are starting to apply digital methods of design and off-site fabrication and to apply the approach of ‘design one, build many’. Such an approach can bring cost savings and improve learning. However, this brings with it challenges because the programme of investment needs to have the scale to make it cost- effective to apply the process of standardisation.21