Data Driven Infrastructure.
In regional Australia, there is a certain amount happening with trains.Despite the fact that distance isn’t necessarily the difficult obstacle one might expect, there’s still a long way to go with DfMA in Australia.
Supply chains and clients are pushing, but it’s still too expensive for contractors who have cost and time pressures.They haven’t yet landed on a perfect solution in terms of an owned or distributed model.. Driving value with onsite data and LoRaWAN technology.Just as Bryden Wood’s focus lies in our Design to Value approach to construction, for asBuilt, adding value is also a key priority.
As such, onsite IoT technology is a key area of interest for the company.Lamont feels we need to slow down to go faster here, deploying simple, smart construction technology solutions to unlock sites.
Afterall, construction sites are temporary in nature, and contain vast amounts of data which isn’t currently being tracked, but easily could be with existing tech.
In reality, there’s no need for 5G technology in order to obtain the data we’re looking to gather onsite, Lamont says.The resulting lockdown forced the redesign of entire research programs, an accomplishment achieved with great perseverance and agility.
Challenging Space Frontiers in Hospitals.by Dr Grant Mills from UCL, and involving Bryden Wood Director Steven Tilkin, incorporated Bryden Wood’s innovative work in platform design (P-DfMA).
The project was quite far advanced when the pandemic hit, and the timing was particularly pertinent, occurring just as hospital construction began recognising the need to look at other processes, such as offsite construction, standardisation and moving to scale of production.The project research focused on an interesting sectoral comparison between the clean room environment of operating theatres in hospitals, and the modules of a spacecraft.