These strategies can include reducing storey heights, optimising Hot Aisle Containment (HAC) required and reducing the clearances between data racks leading to a smaller data hall footprint.. At Bryden Wood, we advocate for a broader application of CFD in optimising and innovating data centre design, aiming for a more sustainable future within the industry.. Data Hall Design Optimisation.
Rickets says that while planning isn’t broken, it is slow.Once the designs of architects and engineers are submitted to the local planning authority, all of that design, modelling, information and data, is, in a sense, dumbed down.
It’s turned back into 2D plans and some PDF documents.Much of the valuable information is lost because councils can’t consume the 3D designs and BIM models created by architects and engineers.. From this point, the information goes to the local planning authority.While they’re good at interpreting it, things can take a long time depending on the size of the development.
Ricketts says he’s spent time with case officers who’ve spent two days with a calculator trying to work out daylight sunlight calculations and viability.He points out that these people didn’t go into planning to do those things.
They went into planning to do the subjective work, and to do the planning..
While working on the Reducing Invalid Planning Applications project (RIPA), Ricketts began to map all of the legislation and planning policy, turning it into rules-based code.We shouldn’t be packaged up and commoditised.
We’re fighting back!.How is the Creative Technologies team shaping the future of design automation at Bryden Wood and why is it such a good fit with the company ethos?.
Bryden Wood is the perfect place for this team, not least because of a happy coincidence of purpose.The Creative Technologies team provide the digital vision to match the physical vision of Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and mass customisation – two key parts of Bryden Wood’s core purpose, Design to Value.