'Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology' - Excerpt 1

Collaboration and engagement with the client in an open, exploratory way was critical to managing this complexity.. Much contemporary design practice seeks to reduce complexity through specialisation –fragmenting responsibility until nobody has a clear view of the whole.

While there, he engaged Bryden Wood and together they developed the Front End Factory, a collaborative endeavour to explore how to turn purpose and strategy into the right projects – which paved the way for Design to Value.He is committed to the betterment of lives through individual and collective endeavours.. As well as his business and pharmaceutical experience, Dyson is Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham, focussing on project management, business strategy and collaboration.. Additionally, he is a qualified counsellor with a private practice and looks to bring the understanding of human behaviour into business and projects.. To learn more about our Design to Value philosophy, read Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology by Professor John Dyson, Mark Bryden, Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood.

Available to purchase at.At Bryden Wood, our work spans many sectors at the leading edge of technological innovation.One rapidly growing sector with a pivotal role in the global energy transition is the construction of lithium-ion battery manufacturing plants for electric vehicles (EVs)..Battery manufacturers such as CATL, BYD, LG Energy Solution, Panasonic, and others are expanding their portfolios of complex new gigafactories.

These facilities handle chemicals, metals, and intermediate products with stringent safety and environmental control requirements, often in direct partnership with carmakers like GM and Tesla..The costs and timescales associated with constructing such facilities are immense..

The Search for Better Value.

The potential benefits of.And what will we do with that space if it’s not needed, if the occupants have jobs that can’t be done at home?.

How will we design and build offices, if there’s the possibility that they might have to be re-purposed for domestic, healthcare or manufacturing purposes?How will we adapt workspaces, ventilation, lifts and kitchens so that we can keep working if (when) new viruses arrive?

What can we do with existing buildings?.Our Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) provides some answers here.