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'At Bryden Wood, it’s all about the role you have in the project and not whether you are a woman or not.

An essential part of the hierarchy, and one of the key focuses of Bryden Wood’s design approach is DfMA, which enables substantial embodied carbon reduction and creates synergies to further reduce operational carbon.The implementation of DfMA combined with energy efficiency measures, specification of low carbon materials and carbon offset measures is the proposed pathway to the delivery of successful net zero carbon buildings.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.

http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesFor pretty much forever, on-site or in-situ construction has been the default way of building.However with accelerating interest in Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), it sometimes seems that on-site construction is falling out of favour..In 2019, the UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) – as it was then called – published an MMC Definition Framework (see my earlier article,.

What does DfMA stand for?).This framework proposes Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) as a metric for assessing the scale of MMC adoption on a project.

PMV is calculated as the percentage of cost that is derived before any site works and strongly encourages maximising the proportion of off-site works.. As a result, many parts of the construction industry are focusing more and more on off-site prefabrication in pursuit of benefits including lower cost, reduced delivery timescales, higher quality, improved health and safety, less waste and more productive site labour..

But is off-site always the best way to achieve these benefits?All of the key players need to recognise their own dissatisfaction and start making changes.. “I don’t just feel the shift,” she says.

“I’m holding on some days because I’m getting knocked over from the shift!”.The thing that will make the biggest difference at the moment, she says, is the productisation - connecting those products upfront in the platform to provide connectivity for designers and makers.. “And I think that's why what you're doing at Bryden Wood is so cool.

We need to enable a connected ecosystem and a connected tissue between all these foundational products to really make this work.And I see examples of it all the time.”.