Industrialised construction: transforming the industry with productisation & DfMA innovation

Even with an optimised design it is likely that new, larger HVAC plant and additional ductwork will be required.

However, in other cases, where assets need to respond to site constraints and/or business needs, then the ability to adapt a Reference Design is critical to its usefulness.We have seen clients who already have Reference Designs (also called template designs).

However, with no rules for how to adapt this Reference Design to local sites, the delivery teams can end up unravelling it and are back with new designs..Many, if not most clients, need designs that can respond to unique sites and needs e.g.for a healthcare facility the design needs to be flexible to accommodate specific clinical specialisms and the demographics of a particular region..

So how can a Reference Design both standardise a design, yet leave enough flexibility to adapt it to any given brief?.Designing flexible Reference Designs.

In Reference Design, we create a core design of the most common of our clients’ facility type using a process of rationalisation, optimisation and standardisation.

At the same time, we attach a planned strategy for increasing or decreasing scale and content and how to flex to suit local conditions e.g.They haven’t yet landed on a perfect solution in terms of an owned or distributed model.. Driving value with onsite data and LoRaWAN technology.

Just as Bryden Wood’s focus lies in our Design to Value approach to construction, for asBuilt, adding value is also a key priority.As such, onsite IoT technology is a key area of interest for the company.

Lamont feels we need to slow down to go faster here, deploying simple, smart construction technology solutions to unlock sites.Afterall, construction sites are temporary in nature, and contain vast amounts of data which isn’t currently being tracked, but easily could be with existing tech.