‘Bryden Wood appealed to me massively,’ says Hall, ‘as a company who are expanding rapidly.’ However the best thing about them, he says, is that they are a multi-discipline company, which ‘allows for the potential of working on a wide range projects.. Hall says the thing he finds most enjoyable about his apprenticeship position is that it enables him to work on ‘live projects’ where he is given the opportunity and responsibility to assist in work going out.
As a result, this could see investors flooding towards construction, as they would get a healthy return on their investment.There’s also the potential for the creation of a virtuous circle, whereby investment boosts spending on construction, which creates jobs and skills.
This would have a bigger, beneficial impact on society.. An increase in investment should also free up more money for research and development.Construction has famously low investment in R&D, which increases the risk profile.As most projects are currently prototypes, there is very little opportunity to test something out before it becomes a live project.
On our current project for Landsec, we’ve witnessed the benefits of prototyping everything in advance at our testing facility in Ropley.This certainty from testing should continue to reduce the risk profile, making us more attractive to investors.. What role does government play in the future of construction Platforms?.
Since mandating BIM back in 2011, the UK government has played a crucial role in the effort to turn a Platform approach to construction into a reality.
There’s been a real consistency to their approach and they have continued to focus their spending power to promote Modern Methods of Construction.Lab processes can be grouped into distinct functional spaces, for example: dry processes, milling, synthesis or analytics.
These functional spaces are theoretical zones which have no spatial definition, acting as a visual way of defining a group of processes which are related to one another..Working with users to categorise the laboratory processes into these distinct functional spaces enables us to generate flow diagrams for the process..
Lab design layout: identifying the flows.As with any project, many stakeholders see a lab design layout as the primary early deliverable to determine that progress is being made on the project.