Recently, Bryden Wood has collaborated with Tata Steel and the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) on the FASTtruss project for automated design and fabrication of steel truss assemblies, for medium-to-large-span buildings.

Available to purchase at.Design to Value evolved gradually and intuitively – and holistically.From designing the brief to considering how elements should be delivered on site to how best to engage the supply chain to how to repurpose existing technology – these things were always central to the Design to Value thinking, even before being labelled as such.. Design to Value purports that the front-end of the project needs to focus on developing data to support decision making at all stages of a meandering process – where each decision step is influenced by the one before.

This has to be done on a project-by-project basis because decisions vary accordingly, demanding different amounts and kinds of work and design elements.Fundamental questions of viability and value must be asked early and answered using data-driven modelling and schematics..Sitting with the client and asking questions forms the basis of every project that follows a Design to Value approach.

Rather than proposing a building to a client who in turn decides if they (a) like the idea and (b) can afford it, Design to Value first asks What is it that you need?What are you trying to achieve?

That of course could end up being a building.

In this framework, the brief becomes a much more malleable concept.These sustainable building measures will reduce the MEP plant loads so that plant takes less space; reducing the building volume further.

It will also result in reduced energy consumption in use, as well as reducing the capital cost of MEP systems.. To make sure we use the most appropriate passive sustainable design measures, we test them for optimum results using computer simulations.This means we know far more about how a building is due to operate than we ever have before.

We can fine tune the building to make it run as efficiently as possible before it is even built, making further energy cost savings..Sustainable design and build for the circular economy.