In a group, where you can look out for one another and work together, the path forward becomes easier, safer, and quicker.. What this bizarrely brings into my mind is the infamous story of.
Integrated design.Much of the industry’s current difficulty arises from the fact that few people can see the entire process through from end-to-end.
At Bryden Wood we have, over time, developed a cross-disciplinary approach in response to this reality and the need to design towards the process – to rationalise, coordinate and develop a fully integrated design solution.Our team includes technologists, designers, architects, engineers and analysts, because it’s vital that we apply these new principles throughout.To begin with a traditional design process and then, at a later stage, attempt to retrofit some form of DfMA means compromising the design to make it fit the system, or creating a non-optimised, inefficient system – resulting in a disadvantaged built asset.. Kit-of-parts architecture.
In addition, where the design and construction industry tends to focus on the differences between sectors - segmenting itself into deep specialisms and viewing particular elements in isolation, we must instead switch our focus to commonality, anchoring the design and build process in similarities, not differences.P-DfMA achieves this goal.
For example, floor-to-floor heights are relatively standard across a variety of different buildings: schools, hospital wards, apartment buildings and certain office types.
This is because the heights result from the size of people, rather than being necessitated by the requirements of a particular sector.Of course, this process will be disruptive because industry transformation always is.
However, the shift will take time and there will be plenty of signals along the way.Companies will be able to adjust accordingly.
It’s likely that many of the current Tier 1 players will remain very powerful in the new market, but we’re also likely to see big disruptors coming in.Not only that, I suspect some of the current players will disrupt their own business models to broaden the range of services and income streams they're able to generate.. We’re also likely to see some contractors start to diversify the services they offer, or broaden their range of products.
(Editor: Elegant Mattresses)