In the Churchwood Gardens project, it was placemaking that led the scheme and was key to the social value of the project.. Bryden Wood worked with Loromah Estates to transform a sloping, landlocked in-fill site in south London with a history of failed planning applications, into a thriving community of residential blocks set in a verdant landscape.

This sometimes takes us in unexpected and surprising directions.For example, one longstanding client of ours is an industrial plastics manufacturer who is strongly focused on improving their sustainability.

For this client, Bryden Wood have designed facilities with excellent environmental performance, introduced green landscaping throughout their site and undertaken studies into the feasibility of achieving Net Zero carbon for the site’s base load energy consumption..However, none of these initiatives addresses the ‘elephant in the room’: the industrial plastics manufacturing process itself, which is heavily reliant on the carbon-intensive chemical production sector.. Chemical production is set to become ‘the single largest driver of global oil consumption by 2030’ according to a 2019 paper in the.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The chemical industry uses around 28% of all industrial energy and 10% of global final energy.2. , which shows how vital it is for the industry to change if we are to reduce carbon emissions and help combat climate change..

This is a lot to accomplish, but it offers Bryden Wood an opportunity to make great steps towards this goal and lead by example, by promoting methods to reduce emissions in the chemical engineering sector.. We started studying this problem to see if it would be possible to produce plastics more sustainably.

And we have found that existing carbon capture technologies have the potential to change the way industrial plastics are produced.. Industrial Plastic Production: Reducing Carbon Emissions.We realised that the manufacturing component of the construction process could be taught to serving prisoners, helping to train them in marketable skills for use on release, and aiding rehabilitation.

We also realised that the sort of P-DfMA systems we were designing for the MOJ could then be transferred across to other government infrastructure projects, thereby facilitating the wider adoption of these beneficial, lean construction processes.. Bryden Wood published the first book on platform design in 2017 (.new updated edition of Platforms book available to download here. )

and we have continued to expand on and optimise Platforms and other MMC methodologies in our work with both public and private sector clients.We’ve never sought to patent our work and we have open sourced the code for both of our construction design apps - SEISMIC and PRISM.