The DfMA designer finds the most suitable innovations in the MMC toolkit (or develops new innovations) to meet a project’s unique challenges..

Resilience, future-proofing and sustainability.It is not enough for a hospital to be excellent when it first opens its doors..

It must also be excellent next year, in 10 years’ time and 10 years after that.It must be able to respond not only to its own changing requirements, but those of local and neighbouring environments, populations and infrastructure.As we have seen over 2020, those changes can be radical and terrifyingly fast.

But as we have also seen over the last 20 years, healthcare priorities can be affected by political and social as much as natural changes.. We are also faced with a climate crisis that requires every building to be designed and built for reduction in both embodied and operational carbon..The best response is to create the most efficient, flexible and adaptable design.

The efficient use of materials is core to the Platforms approach, which naturally tends to the leanest and most compact design by optimising every element, eliminating approximation and allowances, and taking every opportunity to reduce inefficiency and waste.. Technology in all areas.

We apply leading-edge technology to our work across sectors as diverse as housing and underground railways, developing digital solutions that do what digital does best: discover and manage large amounts of disparate data, and create intelligent, efficient outputs.. For hospitals, this may mean managing patient flow through appointments and waiting times, or making sure that people can follow their entire treatment journey (including the physical one from the car park to the treatment room) on their phone.. As with design, engineering and construction, digital expertise is part of the Bryden Wood package.. Design to Value is our driving principle as a company.They're used in different ways at different stages of a project, or in different ways by different users within a project..

The data structures that we build around Chips allow data to be aggregated between different levels.. We can associate any type of data with a Chip.Conventional engineering data is perhaps the most obvious, but we also include data like staffing levels, containment requirements, power consumption, or even the level of design uncertainty.

This allows for visualisation of different issues within a project..It's important that when we define chips, we don't leave gaps.