We are starting to invest in a changing world.
Construction Platform design offers a huge opportunity, because if we could demonstrate a consistent ability to deliver things to price and budget, investors would view construction differently.As a result, this could see investors flooding towards construction, as they would get a healthy return on their investment.
There’s also the potential for the creation of a virtuous circle, whereby investment boosts spending on construction, which creates jobs and skills.This would have a bigger, beneficial impact on society.. An increase in investment should also free up more money for research and development.Construction has famously low investment in R&D, which increases the risk profile.
As most projects are currently prototypes, there is very little opportunity to test something out before it becomes a live project.On our current project for Landsec, we’ve witnessed the benefits of prototyping everything in advance at our testing facility in Ropley.
This certainty from testing should continue to reduce the risk profile, making us more attractive to investors.. What role does government play in the future of construction Platforms?.
Since mandating BIM back in 2011, the UK government has played a crucial role in the effort to turn a Platform approach to construction into a reality.This is however possible with the implementation of DfMA which can design assemblies that meet the stringent envelope performance requirements and can also be disassembled..
Passivhaus is a sustainable building certification standard that reduces operational energy and carbon emissions with minimum performance gap and achieves high levels of thermal comfort and air quality.. Bryden Wood’s P-DfMA approach to building design offers multiple synergies with Passivhaus since it is able to reduce construction programme, cost and design/construction complexity, and labour skills which are some of the inherent challenges of adopting Passivhaus.. Whilst the Passivhaus approach is focused on operational energy/carbon, there has been a keen interest in the industry to understand if this standard favours or penalises embodied carbon.Bryden Wood’s analysis shows that the impact of the adoption of a Passivhaus system has a minimum impact in terms of embodied carbon.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.
http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesIdentifying the processes and scope for lab design.A laboratory is a space in which a number of processes are undertaken in a methodical order, similar to any production line or manufacturing facility.