The developer needs decisions as early as possible to design, secure power, step through regulatory hurdles and source long-lead components; while the customers want to be able to wait as long as possible to read the market.
Carbon reduction against baseline.The path to a sustainable future.. With the growing interest in net zero buildings and sustainable construction, Bryden Wood have developed and implemented their own hierarchy to reduce both operational and embodied carbon.
These hierarchies define the roadmap to achieve good and best practice performance targets defined by bodies such as LETI, RIBA or GLA.An essential part of the hierarchy, and one of the key focuses of Bryden Wood’s design approach is DfMA, which enables substantial embodied carbon reduction and creates synergies to further reduce operational carbon.The implementation of DfMA combined with energy efficiency measures, specification of low carbon materials and carbon offset measures is the proposed pathway to the delivery of successful net zero carbon buildings.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.
http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesBased on a conversation with Phil Langley and Maria Mamoura, Directors of Bryden Wood's Creative Technologies team.. Where is the value in ‘construction technology’, ‘generative design’ or ‘automation in construction’?With design automation and construction tech set to transform the industry, where does the Creative Technologies team at Bryden Wood fit in?
What's your driving purpose?.
Good design is tough.When embarking on the project to reimagine and develop the building into Great Western Studios, we knew ‘the constraints of the build would be its making,’ says Bryden Wood Board Director, Architecture,.
The aim was to create a great building that would respond to its context/environment and that is certainly what Bryden Wood have achieved.The initial challenges posed by the building’s proximity to the Westway and Grand Union canal, as well as the limited site space for construction, have birthed a space of both aesthetic and functional dynamic, equally capable of fulfilling its practical goal of providing creative office spaces to West London creative businesses..
According to O’Neill, the biggest challenge of the project was the building of phase 2 over the fully occupied, existing (phase 1) building.He says that whilst knowing the building would be in use by creative industries did give a sense of freedom regarding the design, ‘it was clear that the building needed to deliver value to ensure we created affordable workspaces.’ These, he notes, are still in shortage in West London.