The possibility of digitising our built environment clearly holds the potential for a wide array of valuable benefits.

The bottom line with respect to our current situation is that the world isn’t going to become any less uncertain, any time soon.The pandemic has highlighted our ability to make large, successful shifts, and to do so very quickly.

Rather than resisting change out of fear of uncertainty, we should embrace it.Let’s use the uncertainty to fuel a change in our processes and find a better way of doing things.Often it happens that opportunities have been with us all along, we were just too nervous to take them.

Now we find that our risk has increased anyway, and so we really have nothing left to lose..If we can just expand our minds and ambition, the only thing left is to gain.. John Dyson, who works closely with Bryden Wood, is ex VP of Capital Strategy at GSK and currently Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham.. You can also listen to John talk about Process Engineering and Design to Value on Episode 3 of our podcast, Built Environment Matters,.

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http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesPeople often ask me why the majority of the staff in Bryden Wood’s Singapore office are data analysts.This is because the heights result from the size of people, rather than being necessitated by the requirements of a particular sector.

We allow for the height of a person, plus headroom, plus a zone for structures, M&E systems and architectural finishes.Recognising this reality, platform construction (P-DfMA) was Bryden Wood’s attempt to identify these types of cross-sector commonalities and develop a kit of parts which could then be used to build a variety of different sector types, but using the same components.

This allows the application of manufacturing techniques and processes, with consistent quality achieved, as well as facilitating greater economies of scale..The manufacturing industry has long enjoyed the benefits of this design to value approach.