MARTINA CARDI, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ARCHITECTURE.
Reduction of the amount of material used.Reduction of waste produced during construction.
Reduction of the time and human resources spent in the delivery of the project.Enables local sourcing.Reduction in whole life carbon.
This has led to a 22% reduction in embodied carbon compared to the traditional construction approach.The project predicts a 9.5% reduction in capital cost and 13% reduction in programme..
Carbon reduction against baseline.
The path to a sustainable future.. With the growing interest in net zero buildings and sustainable construction, Bryden Wood have developed and implemented their own hierarchy to reduce both operational and embodied carbon.Currently, that isn’t often happening.
However, if we want to shift to more of a manufacturing mindset, she believes it’s essential that we “get the right people in the room.”.“The majority of the consultants that are working with our customers and myself on the industrialised construction offering are manufacturing consultants,” she says.
“You have to think of things like systems architecture, and you have to understand things like flow.These are guys who live, breathe, eat, drink and sleep manufacturing, who understand how to apply it to these spaces.