Build Efficiently: implement innovative construction strategies such as Modern methods of Construction (MMC) and use a DfMA approach to reduce waste onsite..

Jami is also currently working on an Innovate UK funded project for the design configuration of primary schools.The project is also delivered as an open source, web app and as she says, ‘enables architects, teachers and pupils alike to quickly and easily configure early stage design proposals...’.

Digital school models feature ‘clusters’ of rooms, which adhere to Department for Education area/adjacency requirements.The goal is to achieve compliant school design from the outset, whilst simultaneously maintaining flexibility and creativity.. An openness and willingness to share ideas is important to Cresser-Brown, who recognises the unique position the industry currently finds itself in resulting from new digital and manufacturing opportunities.She expresses a desire to help create a better built environment and enthuses about the fact that both of these existing projects are being released on an open source basis.

‘Sharing current thinking and best practices freely,’ she says, ‘is the best way that we can shape the industry as a whole.’.Bryden Wood’s Head of XR + Interaction, Director Elite Sher, says her focus lies in ‘combining software engineering and design, in innovative and creative applications, using cutting-edge technologies.’.

Sher is a finalist in the ‘Best Woman Software Engineer’ category of the WICE Awards and has an MSc in Adaptive Architecture and Computation from UCL, The Bartlett.

It was there, she says, that she gained ‘theoretical and practical experience dealing with robotics, AI, machine learning, software engineering, and creative computation.’.However, the general reaction towards these types of MMC tools and processes within the industry remains mixed.

Some people are excited about the potential and transformative functionality of new technologies, but others feel more threatened by things like automation in design and construction.At Bryden Wood, we don’t see these tools as detrimental to the jobs of industry professionals.

Instead, we see them as opportunities.MMC technologies unlock potential to evolve our role as designers.