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.
But also, the bigger the pipe loop, the more problems you have with water quality.We should be installing this new system soon..
Converting offices to labs.This is something else we’re looking at – or designing the mechanical and electrical engineering systems in new office buildings so that they are flexible enough to change usage later.Obviously, there’s a challenge in thinking about ceiling heights and so on, but mostly the complexity is around air exchange.
In an office, you aim for one and a half air changes per hour, whereas with laboratories, because they've got lots of safety cabinets and other devices, we have to look at 10, 15 or even 20 changes an hour in some places.So the ductwork has to be 10 times as big, and the risers 10 times as big to carry the air up and down, and so on.
Designing in flexibility presents lots of interesting challenges.. Master planning and MEP Design for a precious metals refinery.
We started working on this precious metals refinery in 2016.The idea behind this concept is not to develop a single digital planning product.
This project can generate more benefit by remaining open and accessible to a range of collaborators.Nor is our aim to start from scratch or reinvent the wheel - we are using the data that is already created through the use of BIM, and existing formats for sharing it..
The planning process in the UK touches all of our lives.It is integral to the way in which the built environment develops around us; affecting where we live, where we work, where we eat, shop and play, how we walk, cycle and drive, how we produce, manufacture, generate, store, dispose and recycle.