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This categorisation is quite diverse and includes a range of pre-manufactured and pre-assembled systems but also non-system components, site-based material innovations and process innovations..

Within the next couple of years, we’re going to see an amazing increase in knowledge.Project life cycle assessments (LCA) are becoming standard practice.

Five years ago, that simply wasn’t the case for most consultancies.There’s also a lot more guidance around now, for example, from bodies like the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers (CIBSE)..Sustainable building materials and platform construction.

One topic which must be addressed in relation to the reduction of embodied carbon is the sustainable use of building materials.This is an issue we’re particularly focused on at Bryden Wood, in our work with Platform construction.

This transformative kit-of-parts approach enables a reduction in the quantity and weight of building materials.

With Platform construction we know exactly which components will go into a building.The data library can then be embedded in configurators: digital web-based apps/software, which apply the digital data to automatically generate anything from a schedule of room types, to a full, digital asset model..

This would revolutionise the speed with which up front design could be achieved, overcoming the challenge to investors presented by the need for more upfront design..Primary School Configurator.

, developed by Bryden Wood, with Innovate UK funding is an open source, user-friendly web-based app, which configures a primary school building on a specific site in line with DfE requirements.This reduces a process that normally takes weeks, to a matter of minutes.