Jami Cresser-Brown (she/her)
I do group work with them and help them work out how to incorporate all the M&E services into their building, but also give them a focus on sustainable design.
The Supply Chain and SMEs.At Bryden Wood we’re starting to see a real surge of interest from lower tiers of the supply chain, which supports the idea that one major benefit of all of this will be that we'll unlock SMEs in a way that probably hasn't been done before.
In other words, the disintermediation will start to bear significant fruit.While the Tier One role is likely to see the biggest change and will probably face the biggest challenge ahead in terms of evolving their mindsets and positions for the future models, the SMEs might be doing more of what they do, but better and more consistently.SMEs make up a massive portion of the industry, with significant diversity, and we’ll probably also start seeing disruptors in this space as well..
The Construction Innovation Hub is currently working with a wide range of partners including individual consultants and small companies.This includes SMEs with new approaches, technologies and kit developed to support the manufacture of products set to become part of these platform (P-DfMA) systems.
The Hub is also working with the companies who will actually be onsite, and who understand how these systems work and effectively integrate in order to facilitate delivery of the built environment itself.. Then there are the companies working in areas like MEP and facades.
In some respects they’re the easy ones, because many of them are already manufacturing products.However, if we instead repurpose all of the existing thermal sites, repowering the US coal-fired power plants with new nuclear, advanced heat solutions, we could reduce the amount of new transmission bills by an incredible forty percent.. Gogan says this represents a radical de-risking of our net zero transition, and presents a huge opportunity for decarbonisation.
The repowering coal strategy will co-locate an advanced heat source next to an existing coal-fired power plant, decommissioning the coal boiler, while the rest of the plant, including the steam turbine, power island and existing transmission, remain in operation.. To support the repowering coal initiative, Bryden Wood is developing a standardised, scalable building system, configuring the design in such a way as to be able to meet any kind of site or plant requirements, while also accommodating a range of different heat sources.This is being achieved using a highly automated design, and a design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) approach.
We’ll create algorithmic design tools to assess coal plant viability for boiler replacement, generate initial concepts using a design configurator in just days, and produce detailed design outputs for manufacturing.Our Design to Value strategy will deliver low project costs, as well as the rates of deployment and scale necessary to fully decarbonise the projected two terawatts of coal still in operation worldwide..