http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesThe problem with these pronouncements is that they stop thinking and exploration in their tracks.
Carbon reduction against baseline.The path to a sustainable future.. With the growing interest in net zero buildings and sustainable construction, Bryden Wood have developed and implemented their own hierarchy to reduce both operational and embodied carbon.
These hierarchies define the roadmap to achieve good and best practice performance targets defined by bodies such as LETI, RIBA or GLA.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?).She’s eager to see the transformation.. Johnston agrees that things are generally improving, but brings up the difficulty being created by large pockets of resistance still needing to be unlocked.
He feels that government support is helping to advance the issue of industrialised construction in the UK, including with the previous BIM mandate..However, both Marks and Johnston agree on the fact that it’s a true sign of progress to now be able to discuss the rise of industrialised construction in so many countries across the world.
Ten years ago, Marks says, those types of conversations wouldn’t have existed at all..The different geos have different value propositions, just like clients, she says.