Once you have planned how to meet the challenges of thermal comfort, now is also the time to do a full MOT of your ventilation, heating and cooling plant.

If you'd also like to continue to learn about our Design to Value approach, DfMA and Industrialised Construction, sign up for our newsletter here:.http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesThe problem with these pronouncements is that they stop thinking and exploration in their tracks.

For those struggling with their mental health these black and white judgements get people stuck into deep furrows of thinking and emotions.Curiosity is the escape, it breaks down the black and white into diverse elements, like diffracting white light into a myriad of different colours.Even negative ideas and feelings can be broken down into many different strands some of which can be used to find and weave a new perspective.. For me, curiosity is bright, coolly energetic, imaginative, the suspense of judgement until the last moment.

Curiosity is optimistic, believing that through understanding comes the potential for improvement.Without curiosity, humans would simply not have developed and without curiosity now we will remain stuck in our industrial greenhouse..

In my curiosity, I decided I wanted to know the answer to a simple question.

Having been involved a little in a project to look at the production of carbon-neutral synthetic aviation fuel and conversations about the replacement of coal-fired power stations with small nuclear energy generation; I wanted to know how many small nuclear plants it would take to replace the totality of aviation fuel.Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).

As identified above, DfMA is an essential part of the strategy to achieve net zero embodied and operational carbon.Bryden Wood’s Platform approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) is a system that delivers efficiencies across the entire construction process by applying the principles of manufacturing.. Bryden Wood have taken the P-DfMA approach for the design of multiple projects, like Landsec’s The Forge office development in London, where we have followed the hierarchies described above..

The Forge.. Its lean design, using a standardised ’kit-of-parts’ and the better control on the specification and procurement of materials has shown the following benefits:.Reduction of the amount of material used.