Bryden Wood’s industrial sectors capability.
complex departments such as operating theatres, where all aspects of the room are dependent on each other to work properly.Whole asset e.g.
when a Reference Design can be repeated as a fixed design c.f.MoJ houseblocks.The image below is an example..
The depth and breadth of value achieved is greater, the bigger and more complex the Chip.The more co-dependent elements involved, the more variables and complexity the Chip has to resolve and the wider the implications of the ways in which Chips will optimise the design.
So while an inpatient room is optimised for patient comfort and the facilitation of day to day care activities, an operating theatre has more complex variables to incorporate: medical procedures, heightened levels of infection control plus the associated surgical staff, flows of clean and dirty consumables, carefully controlled flows of air, extensive use of medical equipment and data etc..
The optimal design, which we call the Reference Design, can then be largely created by combining these Chips in the most efficient way.There’s work for everybody to do on this, we just need to make a home for people in the sector.
On a somewhat similar note, the industry also needs to start making better use of its existing data.We can’t expect to get into digital twins and smart assets, if we aren’t making the most of the data we already have access to.. Further exploration into the future of construction.
Professor Glass explains that as we turn our efforts towards shaping the future of construction, one of the areas we need to prioritise is our action on net zero and climate change.With construction currently contributing 39% to global carbon emissions, we simply aren’t moving fast enough and the issue needs to be brought forward.