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Our early work with Circle Reading Hospital provided us with excellent foundations: for that project we conducted extensive research into the use dynamics of a hospital, optimising the layout to deliver a hospital with a design that allowed a significantly improved experience for both staff and patients.. Our intention was to develop a set of standard processes and techniques that we would apply to all of our healthcare design projects, while allowing for the specific brief for each facility.
Architects are important, but haven’t always been very good at making it obvious how important we are, and why.Over the last decades, the profession has been fragmented and whittled away – losing influence and impact and getting tied up in bureaucratic systems and approaches that have more to do with easing procurement and dispersing risk than with getting the best results for clients.. We believe that the role of the architect is – or should be – pivotal to the success of built environment projects.
That’s what the job is – or should be – and architects should be allowed to do their job to the best of their abilities.We shouldn’t be packaged up and commoditised.We’re fighting back!.
How is the Creative Technologies team shaping the future of design automation at Bryden Wood and why is it such a good fit with the company ethos?.Bryden Wood is the perfect place for this team, not least because of a happy coincidence of purpose.
The Creative Technologies team provide the digital vision to match the physical vision of Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and mass customisation – two key parts of Bryden Wood’s core purpose, Design to Value.
Everything we’ve done in Creative Technologies has its basis in DfMA, and that, in turn, has shaped the thinking behind how the team is set up, and how we work.. As a team, our design automation work weaves together four threads that run through and connect everything we do.Adrian has developed and led approaches to managing process development and scale-up projects, and their integration with capital projects.Alastair is a chartered architect designing innovative facilities in the life sciences and broader industrial and energy sectors.
He is particularly interested in finding fast, scalable solutions to big global challenges, such as climate change or vaccine production, and uses a range of methods to achieve this including:.Design to Value.
, platforms (P-DfMA), process simulation, and techno-economic analysis..He has worked on international projects that include large and small molecule upstream and downstream pharmaceutical manufacturing, consumer goods, R&D and QC laboratories, site masterplans, and wider strategic initiatives.