Designing data centre M&E: DfMA and an integrated approach

“Design for Manufacture and Assembly” is a design approach.

Reduction in whole life carbon.This has led to a 22% reduction in embodied carbon compared to the traditional construction approach.

The project predicts a 9.5% reduction in capital cost and 13% reduction in programme..Carbon reduction against baseline.The path to a sustainable future.. With the growing interest in net zero buildings and sustainable construction, Bryden Wood have developed and implemented their own hierarchy to reduce both operational and embodied carbon.

These hierarchies define the roadmap to achieve good and best practice performance targets defined by bodies such as LETI, RIBA or GLA.An essential part of the hierarchy, and one of the key focuses of Bryden Wood’s design approach is DfMA, which enables substantial embodied carbon reduction and creates synergies to further reduce operational carbon.

The implementation of DfMA combined with energy efficiency measures, specification of low carbon materials and carbon offset measures is the proposed pathway to the delivery of successful net zero carbon buildings.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.

http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesBased on a conversation with Phil Langley and Maria Mamoura, Directors of Bryden Wood's Creative Technologies team.. Where is the value in ‘construction technology’, ‘generative design’ or ‘automation in construction’?It’s a hive of creative activity.

‘You just wouldn’t get this type of inspiration if you were working out of a shed in your garden,’ McLane says, and as if to substantiate her claim, there’s a gruff bark from Wilma, a minuscule, wire-haired dachshund and GWS favourite who has entered the central area.Haley smiles, ‘The glass fronts of the studios are like vignettes into other people’s worlds.

It’s so inspirational.’.She is a strong believer in how an office is a physical representation of who companies are publicly and internally, GWS’s delivery of both urban beauty and an industrious artistic community answers her brief one hundred percent.. KHALIFA ABUBAKAR AND SHAUN OBINNA IHEJETOH, WEST PORT & COMPANY.