Population growth coupled with the required infrastructure will generate massive amounts of carbon.

What can we do with existing buildings?.Our Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) provides some answers here.

As a method of construction, it presents many advantages, but in this context three stand out:.The Platforms approach to construction uses standard components for buildings that can be assembled in a number of ways, depending on the purpose of the building.But because they’re standardised, these parts can be disassembled and reassembled relatively easily within the superstructure.

The inherent agility of Platform construction means that final decisions on configuration can be made much later in the process than in traditional construction, allowing for change, if necessary, during design and build..The use of the same components across sectors allows the possibility of repurposing buildings – so an office block can later be turned into residential with relatively little intervention.. Digital design makes it all possible.

In all of this, digital is our strongest ally.

Our ability at Bryden Wood to model using unusually large and varied data sets gives us a uniquely multi-dimensional perspective on problems.We have a focus on building physics, with the aim of reducing energy costs for occupiers, as well as reducing carbon emissions.

We’re also particularly committed to looking at the whole life of a building, so this also encompasses the embodied carbon within materials — from construction methods all the way through to how that material operates.It’s very much a cradle to grave approach.

We tend to not necessarily go for environmental ratings, so we can offer BREEAM, but it doesn’t have to be applied to every project.It’s more about listening to the client, understanding what their drivers are, and then applying the best part of different ratings or standards in sustainable design so that the client actually gets what they need, rather than what a certificate says that they might want.. IP: What makes Bryden Wood unique when it comes to sustainable design?.