As all of the departments had their own nomenclature for the base types, it was an arduous task.
Between them, there is also an often unspoken common denominator which Bryden Wood have explored.Put simply: if we build less, we emit less carbon.. Low embodied carbon and the future of sustainable design.
It’s generally understood that changing material specification can help reduce embodied carbon and create a more sustainable design and build process.What is often not mentioned is that we can also achieve reduced embodied carbon and capital cost through optimisation and reducing the volume of building, and the earlier this is considered the bigger the carbon savings.. Bryden Wood have demonstrated that through optimising architectural layouts, we can produce higher net to gross ratio space.We do this by enhancing circulation and ancillary spaces and providing more useful, flexible space.
With the reduction in internal floor area, there is less space to be conditioned with expensive MEP systems, less structure and less external envelope.This sustainable design process is incredibly effective..
Lean design encourages optimised material usage within the building.
This might be improving the optimisation factor of steel, reducing the thickness of concrete slabs, or balancing insulation thicknesses of walls, floors and roofs with operational energy savings.Measured in the UK, the construction sector is the sixth largest in terms of employment and is responsible for over 12% of the UK’s 5.9m small and medium-sized enterprises.
Although already one of the leading industries for numbers of apprenticeships, greater emphasis must be placed on diversification of the workforce and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).Doing so will help us to deliver the projects of the future and further increase social value in construction..
The considerable increase in focus within the industry on the sustainable design, construction and use of buildings in recent decades suggests there is an appetite and ability to overlay additional value criteria onto the commissioning and appraisal of architectural schemes.Bryden Wood’s principle of Design to Value and the promotion of DfMA looks to bridge this gap, as the construction industry transitions to MMC.
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