We must like Tevye, flex, weigh things up and at times dispense completely with the way things were done.
Rather than resisting change out of fear of uncertainty, we should embrace it.Let’s use the uncertainty to fuel a change in our processes and find a better way of doing things.
Often it happens that opportunities have been with us all along, we were just too nervous to take them.Now we find that our risk has increased anyway, and so we really have nothing left to lose..If we can just expand our minds and ambition, the only thing left is to gain.. John Dyson, who works closely with Bryden Wood, is ex VP of Capital Strategy at GSK and currently Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham.. You can also listen to John talk about Process Engineering and Design to Value on Episode 3 of our podcast, Built Environment Matters,.
If you'd like to continue to learn about our Design to Value approach and Modern Methods of Construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesPeople often ask me why the majority of the staff in Bryden Wood’s Singapore office are data analysts.
I suppose it seems counter-intuitive for a firm focused on design and engineering for the built environment to put such stock in analytics.
This however is a key aspect of Bryden Wood’s Design to Value approach and for me has always seemed like a natural extension of our long-term quest to deliver better design through a deeper understanding of how buildings really work.. Others at Bryden Wood have already.Because platform construction uses a limited number of components, it gives us a greater amount of control.
We’re able to limit the number of processes and operations which have to happen on site and we can control materials much more accurately.There are also considerable time-saving benefits with P-DfMA, which enable us to spend more time on the design and optimisation of components in the first place.
We put a tremendous amount of effort into component design because we know we’ll be using those same components again and again.Every gram of material you take out of the manufacturing process, out of each assembly process, has a massive multiplier effect in terms of material reduction.