LETI is a voluntary network of over 1000 built environment professionals who are working together to put London on the path to a zero carbon future.
Design must form the entry point, with that particular element of P-DfMA serving as the foundation and pervading principle for everything which follows.We must allow the manufacture and assembly process to drive the way we design the asset in the first place, as well as the way we engage the client and the supply chain..
Integrated design.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.Not in the future.
The global population is increasing rapidly, set to reach 11.5 billion by 2050.Inefficiency abounds when every building is a prototype and we start from scratch with the design and build process each and every time.
At Bryden Wood, we believe the key to solving both the housing shortage and the wider construction crisis lies in the use of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).. Housing Design with Modern Methods of Construction.By Modern Methods of Construction, we refer to those transformative and often technologically innovative methodologies which enable rapid, safe and efficient assembly of building parts rather than traditional construction.