Interdisciplinary approaches in prison design.
At Bryden Wood we’ve found that some of the greatest successes and quickest changes come from cross-fertilising ideas from one sector to another, disrupting a long-standing model with a better way of working.With a background spanning industries like agriculture, engineering and healthcare, as well as work as part of the Technology Strategy Board of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Sully says it’s the significant breadth of her previous experience that makes her so well suited to her current work with the Hub.. Now entering its fourth year in operation, the purpose of the Construction Innovation Hub is to act as a catalyst to support the industry, working with both the UK government and supply chain, in order to establish how we can facilitate more effective delivery of our built environment.
Working with manufacturing and digital processes in its quest to support progression around productivity and efficiency, the Hub focuses on safety, meeting and exceeding existing standards, and looking toward future approaches.The Construction Innovation Hub works with over 200 companies in various ways across a range of projects, and collaborates with government partners, including all of the contracting departments.At core, the Construction Innovation Hub is a consortium of three organisations:.
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), focused on the manufacturing and process element of the work..The Building Research Establishment (BRE), dealing with the quality and assurance aspects..
The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), handling information management and the need for data in order to foster learning in everything we do, and to do things in a more efficient and effective way..
The opportunity for this sort of package was recognized in the 2017 Industrial Strategy.Not only can it be reused in its component form but it can be disassembled further in a local offsite facility, reducing on-site pollution.
This provides additional opportunities for reusing materials.. Use technology for green buildings.Using digital design tools as part of a sustainable construction strategy enables exact material quantities to be determined, down to the number of screws and bolts required for a building.
This allows materials to be ordered with minimal wastage.. Material passports can be assigned to every material within the building, listing out its environmental and technical performance.This means materials can be selected on their environmental merits.
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