, developed by Bryden Wood, with Innovate UK funding is an open source, user-friendly web-based app, which configures a primary school building on a specific site in line with DfE requirements.
In time, this market will help to further reduce material costs..Following through the circular economy idea to the end of a building’s life, simple design choices allow new materials to be reused at that stage.
Using reversable joints for steelwork connections so that beams and columns can be disassembled in their primary form, allows them to be re-used rather than be melted down and recycled as a raw material.Intumescent paint has to be manually chipped off steelwork before it can be recycled or reused, so choosing to use boarding for fire protection is a better sustainable design choice.These decisions have little cost impact when they are integrated into the building’s design, but can help create – and sustain – the circular economy..
Extending a building’s life, or giving it a second life through refurbishment, reduces the need to use yet more building materials for its replacement.Designing adaptable buildings enables the function to change depending on its users’ needs.
If COVID has taught us anything, it’s that workplaces and homes both need to be flexible to account for changing work patterns.
It’s a balancing act to make sure a building can be adaptable without over-designing the structure, architecture and MEP.When design and planning happen more quickly, people will want to see construction happen faster too.
MMC won’t need to be enforced, developers will come on board willingly because MMC will provide much quicker outcomes, with much greater levels of certainty.Ultimately, when we make MMC and design for precision manufacturing the default option, we’ll be able to make better homes for people.. At Bryden Wood we’re currently working on the New Hospitals Programme, which is the first real enactment of the Construction Playbook.
Within the lifetime of that programme, we hope to have fundamentally changed the way physical building is done, the way we use MMC, and the way we deliver assets.Such a success would pave the way for P-DfMA and other MMC methodologies to be rolled out across other social infrastructure, including schools, social housing and more.