Marks has embraced industrialised construction as a term, however, but she acknowledges that some industry professionals, working in areas that aren’t directly related to construction, don’t always feel represented by it.. There’s also the term ‘Modern Methods of Construction’ (MMC), which Marks says she used to use but doesn’t anymore.
We’re all colleagues and we’re encouraged to go out there and be proactive.'.KELSEY PATERSON, INTERMEDIATE ENGINEER, MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL.
'I’m a mechanical engineer.I work on building services.. We design heating, air conditioning & ventilation for all the buildings that we work on.I enjoy the challenge.
A lot of it is problem-solving and working together with the wider Bryden Wood team, which I really enjoy.It’s well suited to my personality, because I like getting into the detail of things.
I’m a very maths and science-based thinker, so it’s the area that I enjoy..
I didn’t really think about [being fem.Clients need to understand that their project team members might feel uncomfortable about a new and unfamiliar process and we encourage the senior client representative to reassure their team that this is expected and it’s okay.
They need to understand that the standard processes are comfortably wrong: everyone feels comfortable about them but they produce the wrong answer, and that is because the path is predefined.. Once the values of a project are established, diagramming begins.Visual language is key to articulating this.
For instance, a client might express that they need a space to do.X process in, which needs to be near a space that can handle Y process, which needs to be next to something else essential but perhaps seemingly unrelated, and they all need to have good light and be highly adaptable.
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