Whether tackling climate change through renewable energy or enhancing societal outcomes via thoughtful design, we aim to exemplify how architecture and engineering can be forces for good.With a breadth of cross-sectoral experience connected by themes of challenge, change and growth, Trudi Sully is used to looking at the darkest sides of an industry and watching as innovation forges a transformational path to a better state of being.
If we have to build new buildings, we must consider how many of the materials can be from reused products, components or buildings.For example, where there are buildings being demolished on site or locally, materials can be sourced from these buildings, refurbished, and then used in the new building.
Alternatively, a national circular economy should be developed to enable the sharing of good quality reused products..Many structural elements, such as steel beams or concrete prefabricated floor slabs, have a life expectancy which far outlasts a building’s lifespan.By knowing these products are going to waste through the demolition of existing buildings, designers can incorporate these components into their design from the outset, using fewer new natural resources and raw materials..
Instead of breaking components into smaller pieces and recycling the individual materials, reusing a component in its primary form has a higher value for sustainable construction.It results in fewer modifications, and less manufacturing and construction.
This uses fewer materials, less energy and minimises environmental impacts.
The value of the item is retained with the potential to reuse it again in the future.He is a leading thinker on the future of industrialised construction and is at the forefront of both private and public sector ambitions to adopt manufacturing-led design and construction practices..
He joined Bryden Wood in 1995 and has been instrumental in leading the company’s expansion from disruptive start-up to 300+ people across 9 offices worldwide..He was an original member of the UK Government BIM Task Group and was the co-author of the 'Design for Manufacture + Assembly' overlay to the RIBA Plan of Works.. Jaimie's books on P-DfMA include ‘.
Delivery Platforms for Government Assets: Creating a Marketplace for Manufactured Spaces.This work was adopted as a key articulation of the UK Government’s aspiration to adopt a more industrialised approach to construction and was referenced in their ‘.
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