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The benefits of standardisation are visible every day in the manufacturing industry, at global scale.At Bryden Wood, we bring them to construction.
We used the principles of Design to Value described above to define a standard set of components and assembly techniques which form the basis of a huge range of buildings, from residential to industrial architecture.. We called this a Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA).. Our Platform construction work.is well documented and has been endorsed by the UK government for use across its development programme.. Evidencing the benefits of Design to Value.We are currently on site in central London with.
, constructing a major commercial office design development using Platforms construction, which is already showing exceptional environmental gains, for example: a 40% reduction in steel used; a forecast 19.4% reduction in embodied carbon per square metre, a 36.4% carbon reduction in the substructure and 20.2% in the superstructure and façade..In 2019, a new GSK facility started production in Parma, Italy.
The initial requirement was to design and build a pharmaceutical facility in 15 months that would usually have taken closer to three years to complete, in order to maintain supply of a life-saving treatment for people with HIV.
We achieved this mould-breaking pharmaceutical facility by, as described, investing significant time and focus in modelling the problem before going anywhere near construction..on a number of projects which include a private hospital in Kent; expansion of a waste water treatment plant in Cambridgeshire; the product design of a modular plug-in.
critical power and cooling modules for Schneider Electric; and the design of a new passenger pier including baggage facility for Gatwick airport.. Kevin has also been involved in the development of a standardised chassis solution for a mixed-use residential development.This led to the design for a number of plots using the chassis approach with different architectural teams.. More recently he has worked on the development of a system design for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for the development of production facilities globally.
The system design is based on a scalable, component based, modular solution that targets off-site prefabrication using BIM.This has led to the commission of a number of feasibility studies for GSK projects following the system design solution.. Kevin has extensive experience with University frameworks having worked with various colleges including University of Cambridge, University Campus Suffolk and University College London.Pablo is an Architect with broad experience in.
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