Process engineering and MMC: a Design to Value approach

Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB).

It is to represent the evolving design in a way that is relevant to the stakeholders so they can understand the choices made and judge whether the design meets their needs.This is a unique advantage of our Chip Thinking®️ process.. Rather than showing increasingly detailed plans and elevations, we represent the solution in terms of what it does to solve the client’s problem.

For a prison that needs to be more rehabilitative, this means: showing what is visible from where; how activities are distributed across the buildings and the site; how the buildings are zoned and controlled to allow free movement while controlling who goes where.For a pharmaceutical plant that needs to satisfy uncertain demand in an emerging market, this could entail seeing the capacity of the production equipment, its utilisation, the labour required to operate it, and the flexibility of the equipment to produce either different or more products..In each case the representation is driven by what client and stakeholders need to see to satisfy themselves that the proposed solution meets their needs, but also to inform the wider team to decide what the next design iteration needs to look like to create an even better and more detailed solution.. At the end of this process, we have not simply a good design but also a transparent account of how expert knowledge and stakeholder requirements steered the decision-making process.

This not only gives our clients the confidence that they have got the right solution, but ensures they understand why this design is preferable over all others.We maximise understanding, efficiency and value.. An approach that feeds back into the business.

This process reflects our experience and research on design, thinking and deciding.

It is structured to guide and stimulate thinking and creativity.This immediately standardises the process and streamlines the range of technical compliance as a result.

Plus, with choices in the assembly, architectural outcomes can still be recognisably different and tailored..At Bryden Wood, starting with productivity-led value drivers, we developed a hybrid steel and concrete mid span platform (Platform II).

We then proved the concept on the design and delivery of The Forge, a commercial building for Landsec, the first ‘platform’ building..There are bound to be other mid span options: using other value drivers as a start point will no doubt give rise to other types of mid span platform e.g.