This video shows how we can go from concept to BIM in minutes, as demonstrated at Futurebuild 2020.We're proud that an above average 30%* of the Bryden Wood team are talented women.
The most significant and perhaps difficult question needed to be addressed in every project is: how can we not build things we don’t really need even if they have a financial return?A factory in Japan was due for closure and demolition as it no longer met the requirements for withstanding an earthquake after rules were changed following the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
Studies to look at remediating the buildings had suggested the need to cease operations for 18 months, meaning the solution was unviable.Although the client was looking for the most efficient replacement factory, the Design to Value approach – combined with clever thinking and seismic modelling – came up with a solution to support the existing building.This eradicated the need to replace or shut down the operation, saving the client more than £120 million – not to mention tonnes of embedded and emitted carbon in the construction of a new asset..
If building is the only option, then the hard questions need to continue:.What would a zero-carbon building look like across its whole lifespan?
There is a pressing need to reduce carbon emissions in the short term, so although having an efficient building over a 50-year period is a good outcome, it is insufficient if it causes a huge emission of CO2 in the next few years.
There are technologies being developed that extract CO2 from the atmosphere to incorporate into building materials.The minefield of different terms means there is a tendency to assume that the landscape is complicated but there really is a simple relationship between all these different elements and it starts with DfMA.. DfMA is a design approach.
The clue is in the name.“Design for Manufacture and Assembly” is a design approach.
Conventional design either has a presumption towards conventional construction or is agnostic regarding the construction method.Conversely, a DfMA design is developed to be constructed in a particular way..