Haley smiles, ‘The glass fronts of the studios are like vignettes into other people’s worlds.
We have a focus on building physics, with the aim of reducing energy costs for occupiers, as well as reducing carbon emissions.We’re also particularly committed to looking at the whole life of a building, so this also encompasses the embodied carbon within materials — from construction methods all the way through to how that material operates.
It’s very much a cradle to grave approach.We tend to not necessarily go for environmental ratings, so we can offer BREEAM, but it doesn’t have to be applied to every project.It’s more about listening to the client, understanding what their drivers are, and then applying the best part of different ratings or standards in sustainable design so that the client actually gets what they need, rather than what a certificate says that they might want.. IP: What makes Bryden Wood unique when it comes to sustainable design?.
HH: I think the unique thing is that we sit amongst both architects and engineers, so we are fundamentally set up to deliver an integrated approach.For us, we’re not looking at a building after it’s already been designed and then trying to apply things, or forcing the design.
The advantage comes from working with the architect and the engineers.
It’s the benefit of early stage involvement.Europe is already covered in LoRaWAN with something like 10,000 gateways across Europe, over 1,000 in Australia, and around 800 in the U.S. One barrier which presents for the latter, is that their cellular network, which runs across states, makes it difficult to talk between networks.
As such, we need to remove that network issue from IoT construction.In the case of LoRaWAN, private networks can be established, in addition to the public ones.
Lamont believes these private networks are where we’ll see real genesis and IoT technology emerging in construction.WiFi is full, however this would make millions of IP addresses available to us..