These components tend to be the large, heavy, commoditised elements including:.

That’s a large amount of money, and very welcome.But we could make the money spent on hospital design and construction go further – about 30% further, in fact.. Our most recent major healthcare architecture project opened at the beginning of September 2020 in Edgbaston, UK.

Circle Rehabilitation is a beautiful building, with some spectacular architectural and engineering features, as well as being a cutting-edge, best-in-class hospital with five operating theatres, ten first stage recovery beds, 20 second stage recovery beds, 20 hospital bedrooms and 120 bedrooms for rehabilitation patients.It has a comprehensive imaging department and a large physiotherapy capacity for elective care and rehabilitation services.. And yet it cost 30% less to build than comparable hospitals.. Design to Value - an integrated approach to architecture and construction.Bryden Wood’s approach is always to apply our integrated design expertise to analyse projects exhaustively, and make sure that we deliver the solution that adds the most value.

We question everything, and take nothing for granted, in line with our Design to Value approach.. Design to Value is well understood and applied in the manufacturing industries.It leads to objective analysis of every aspect of a process, every element of resource requirement, energy consumption, knowledge, and cost.

It leads to testing of the value parameters each of these elements is being measured against.

It is rigorous, logical and data-driven.Standardised data will vastly improve transparency and efficiency, and open up opportunities for future innovation..

Enabling planning as a data-led process will unlock the value of related modern methods of construction, enabling connections with related applications such as the PRiSM app for housing.. Making processes more efficient and transparent will force the hand of the regulatory environment – as we have seen in other sectors, better technology drives the modernisation of regulations.. And, of course, the lessons learned from this project can be applied beyond planning.This sort of project helps create the environment for people – public and professionals – to engage with digital in the public realm.

This will be an exemplar of how applying technology creates a proliferation of benefits.. How to create a digital environment for planning.In order to enable a digitised planning process, the core requirement is to:.