The UK government has committed to reducing carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, and to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Head of Nursing Paul Highton expresses this same sentiment when discussing the various options he has if needing to move quickly to another area of the facility.‘It’s very easy, really,’ he says.
‘There’s a central stairway, which you can sort of run up, or walk with intent… The lifts are very quick.They’re very spacious.It’s easy to negotiate your way around.
If, for some reason, I couldn’t go that way, there are fire exits at each end of the building, which I could go up if needed.’.The other aspect of the hospital’s sense of spaciousness is, of course, provided by the rooms themselves.
Supplies Lead Wendy Bonard-Williams comments that her team are fortunate in this regard.
‘With the actual store rooms themselves,’ she says, ‘they’ve really thought about it.’.As designers we at Bryden Wood believe strongly in the DfMA approach and have used it successfully on many projects to achieve considerable benefits.. We advocate for any designer of buildings to apply a DfMA approach by considering efficient construction methods to leverage the benefits of manufacturing and assembly, and design with them in mind from the earliest stage.. Getting started with DfMA is the hardest part and too big a topic to discuss in detail here but a great first step is to keep up to date with MMC innovations and think about how those innovations can be used to deliver better project outcomes.. Clients can support greater uptake of DfMA by demanding the best value project outcomes to ensure a benefit-driven approach to MMC adoption is applied on their projects.. As the MMC toolkit grows it becomes more and more powerful.
It is great to see players across the whole construction industry developing new innovative approaches to construction that expand the MMC toolkit.. To help the industry move forward, governments also have a role to play by encouraging and rewarding innovation and providing streamlined (but still robust) regulatory approvals processes for MMC innovations.. With a strong and diverse MMC toolkit and growing DfMA experience in the design professions, the industry as a whole will be better positioned to seize the opportunity to deliver better performing buildings, with less resources, that deliver maximum value to clients.These are the key aims of a Design to Value approach.. [1].
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/modern-methods-of-construction-working-group-developing-a-definition-frameworkdownload our façade engineering brochure here.Bryden Wood is a wide-ranging company with expertise and experience across sectors and specialisms..