It was a precursor to the reviews and policies that followed, including;.
This approach means that, for M&E services, as well as across the whole project, we reduce cost, time, materials and waste, while increasing quality, worker safety and overall efficiency..It is Bryden Wood’s integrated approach – where our M&E team forms a core part of the project team – that makes this possible.. M&E design at the Forge: a working example.
The Forge, a commercial office development with Landsec in central London, is the first major building to use P-DfMA from building design to delivery.The benefits of P-DfMA are showing in many areas of the project, but not least in the installation of M&E building services, in RIBA stage 5..The Forge is designed as open-plan office space, with exposed services and soffit.
It is also designed to be zero carbon in both construction and operation.Our M&E design challenge was to look at the entire office environment and standardise the design of the M&E systems to deliver outstanding performance, while controlling costs and ensuring that the exposed services were aesthetically appealing as well.. Driving value in M&E building services at the Forge.
Our solution was to use a small variety of repeatable elements.
Across the entire project, we have minimised the variety of types and sizes of equipment and distribution modules.However, we know that the systematisation of methods, super-charged with developments in creative technologies, is a proven way to exponentially industrialise, as it has in the last 100 years.
Approaches which modularise process plants and utilities move construction techniques into mass production techniques.Building platforms move us away from bespoke design and delivery into repeatable, lean methods of construction.
Approaches to standardisation and mass-customisation allow us to adapt solutions to the real world while protecting and massively improving productivity.These approaches are already being explored and applied across sectors.. We also know that we can achieve industrialisation within the context of a cherished natural world if we have the intent and the imagination..