The data library can then be embedded in configurators: digital web-based apps/software, which apply the digital data to automatically generate anything from a schedule of room types, to a full, digital asset model..

We do this by enhancing circulation and ancillary spaces and providing more useful, flexible space.With the reduction in internal floor area, there is less space to be conditioned with expensive MEP systems, less structure and less external envelope.

This sustainable design process is incredibly effective..Lean design encourages optimised material usage within the building.This might be improving the optimisation factor of steel, reducing the thickness of concrete slabs, or balancing insulation thicknesses of walls, floors and roofs with operational energy savings.

A reduced quantity of building materials reduces a building’s weight.This in turn reduces the load on the foundations, allowing a further reduction in materials used in the substructure.

Lean design places a renewed emphasis on optimum sizing, without unnecessary redundancies or capacities.

This is an important component of sustainable architectural design..Social value is about people, be that the client, or the general public who happen to live or work close by..

The Forge is a key example of how Bryden Wood’s approach to built assets allows us to deliver on all fronts.As the first major building designed and delivered using our P-DfMA approach, it considers social value further than the conventional considerations of improved public realm, economic value and sustainability.

It redefines it, in its approach to construction and the impact of that construction on the surrounding area..The Forge is designed to a zero carbon in use strategy, with a forecast a forecast 19.4% reduction in embodied carbon per square metre, a 36.4% carbon reduction in the substructure and 20.2% in the superstructure and façade.. As well as this, the construction system allows for a greater level of efficiency in the build, fewer materials, and a significant reduction in site operatives required for the superstructure and façade.