Steven Tilkin

Visual language is key to articulating this.

Design must form the entry point, with that particular element of P-DfMA serving as the foundation and pervading principle for everything which follows.We must allow the manufacture and assembly process to drive the way we design the asset in the first place, as well as the way we engage the client and the supply chain..

Integrated design.Much of the industry’s current difficulty arises from the fact that few people can see the entire process through from end-to-end.At Bryden Wood we have, over time, developed a cross-disciplinary approach in response to this reality and the need to design towards the process – to rationalise, coordinate and develop a fully integrated design solution.

Our team includes technologists, designers, architects, engineers and analysts, because it’s vital that we apply these new principles throughout.To begin with a traditional design process and then, at a later stage, attempt to retrofit some form of DfMA means compromising the design to make it fit the system, or creating a non-optimised, inefficient system – resulting in a disadvantaged built asset.. Kit-of-parts architecture.

In addition, where the design and construction industry tends to focus on the differences between sectors - segmenting itself into deep specialisms and viewing particular elements in isolation, we must instead switch our focus to commonality, anchoring the design and build process in similarities, not differences.

P-DfMA achieves this goal.That level of data will provide huge knowledge and insight, which in turn will help us to make better decisions supporting our broader set of Design for Value outcomes.

We’ll be able to make decisions about how we want to intervene, and it could end up shaping the policy environment.That’s when we’ll really see the true power and value of data.. A Kit-of-Parts Approach and the Creation of a Digital Marketplace for Construction.

In the utopian future state we seek, buildings will increasingly be configured using Platform construction methodologies and a kit-of-parts approach.The parts will be interoperable and there will be common interface standards and rules.