Each option can be assessed against performance objectives set by the Trust, including carbon, energy, clinical layout, travel distances, site constraints, construction approaches and operational considerations. This is increasingly important given the requirements of the NHS Net Zero Building Standard, which mandates that all new builds and major refurbishments demonstrate whole-life carbon performance, including upfront embodied carbon, from the earliest business case stages.
Daisy also streamlines conversations between different experts, from clinical teams to estates leaders and design teams, by bringing different expert views into one iterative model. Using insights from multiple teams, it makes sure all these perspectives are cohesively integrated into a unified design.
Strengthening business cases and unlocking value
Strategic Outline Cases can be supported by fully tested, costed and auditable options, reducing uncertainty and strengthening the case for investment. This aligns with the updated NHS Premises Assurance Model (2026/27) and its move to a compliance-based framework that places greater scrutiny on how estates decisions are evidenced.
With the tool's incorporation of MMC, flexibility, adaptability and net zero metrics, Daisy has the power to reduce the need for extensive value engineering, especially at detailed design stage, when cost savings often don't account for the longer-term revenue impacts on Trusts once a facility is built. Capital that might otherwise be absorbed by rework can instead be redirected towards additional schemes, estate improvements or wider decarbonisation initiatives.
Embedding net zero and supporting workforce outcomes
Daisy evaluates embodied and operational carbon alongside cost and clinical performance, ensuring sustainability is a core part of design decisions without compromising clinical or financial outcomes.
Assessing clinical adjacencies and travel distances early also helps create layouts that support efficient workflows, reduce unnecessary movement and improve staff experience, with a direct link to workforce wellbeing, productivity and retention.
Better decisions, earlier. Greater value, longer term.
By embracing digital tools and AI-driven insight at the earliest stages, Trusts have the opportunity to take greater control of their capital programmes. National initiatives such as the New Hospital Programme (NHP) and its Hospital 2.0 design approach echo this direction, emphasising standardisation, digital-first design and early-stage performance optimisation.
At its core, Daisy helps NHS Trusts realise their clinical and estates priorities through a balanced, simultaneous approach – maximising the efficiency of capital projects while ensuring developments are future-proofed, sustainable and aligned with delivering high-quality patient care.
