How to Propagate a Fiddle Leaf Fig Plant

This is about understanding how to take information about one stage of an asset, and make it usable for another stage.

A Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) delivers significant benefits to a project, including: reduced costs, reduced programme time, reduced carbon, reduced numbers of workers required to build, increased health and safety, increased quality, increased flexibility and adaptability.. And we can deliver all of this with no compromise on the aesthetic quality of the building.The beauty of Circle Birmingham hospital – including the spectacular cantilever we achieved over the main entrance – bears witness to that last point.

And this is not simply architectural posturing.We know that the physical environment affects us directly, and it has been shown repeatedly that the patient experience of a beautiful and uplifting hospital environment makes a materially positive difference to clinical outcomes.. Clearly, all of these benefits are critical when healthcare is under such pressure – pressure which shows no signs of abating.When public money is being spent at such scale, the opportunity to increase benefits across the piece while also making the money go further is surely one that we should seize.. A proven approach.

Our approach is proven to work.There is nothing stopping us from doing this other than inertia and reluctance among some parties to change from traditional methods of design and construction.

But as recent events have shown, traditional is not good enough.. We need new approaches, and smart solutions.

Fortunately, we have them..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.