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Much of the industry’s current difficulty arises from the fact that few people can see the entire process through from end-to-end.At Bryden Wood we have, over time, developed a cross-disciplinary approach in response to this reality and the need to design towards the process – to rationalise, coordinate and develop a fully integrated design solution.
Our team includes technologists, designers, architects, engineers and analysts, because it’s vital that we apply these new principles throughout.To begin with a traditional design process and then, at a later stage, attempt to retrofit some form of DfMA means compromising the design to make it fit the system, or creating a non-optimised, inefficient system – resulting in a disadvantaged built asset.. Kit-of-parts architecture.In addition, where the design and construction industry tends to focus on the differences between sectors - segmenting itself into deep specialisms and viewing particular elements in isolation, we must instead switch our focus to commonality, anchoring the design and build process in similarities, not differences.
P-DfMA achieves this goal.For example, floor-to-floor heights are relatively standard across a variety of different buildings: schools, hospital wards, apartment buildings and certain office types.
This is because the heights result from the size of people, rather than being necessitated by the requirements of a particular sector.
We allow for the height of a person, plus headroom, plus a zone for structures, M&E systems and architectural finishes.People will begin to understand how they can use data to offer different products and services, impacting things like availability and operational performance.
In this scenario, capital costs will become something of a blip in terms of the overall service offering being brought to market.. P-DfMA and the UK’s Role within the International Community.Then there is our work here in the UK with Platform construction (P-DfMA).
It’s certainly an exciting possibility that our work with P-DfMA could end up being adopted by the international community.We saw this happen with BIM standards, which were very quickly adopted as the de facto standards with things like EN ISO 19650.