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The house block design is the new standard that is being adopted across the planned prison estate expansion and will be used across several sites, both for new prisons and for adding capacity to existing sites.. Impact on wider industry.

The false ceilings were omitted to reduce materials needed, the curtain walling is self finishing to the inside of the external walls, the building is largely open plan reducing the number of internal walls required and finally the raised flooring is reused from an existing building.The materials specified for the internal wall include recycled materials, reducing their embodied carbon..

Finally, the DfMA approach has optimised the MEP systems, using modular prefabricated units, which reduce the amount of material used.When comparing our results with LETI benchmarks (see below), this is not apparent.It is becoming clear across the industry that LETI benchmarks for MEP are likely underestimated..

Embodied carbon analysis.When reviewing the building against benchmarks for WLC, including the LETI extrapolated targets, the buildings perform well against 2020 targets.

Again, the buildings hit the current GLA benchmark, albeit the façade performance is higher than the GLA expects.

However, were this building to be designed now to achieve LETI/RIBA 2030 targets further learnings need to be taken forward..This gave the client a clear way to see the most pressing requirements, and an initial indication of how to prioritise and plan the way ahead.. We carried out further analysis of the full scope of what is covered by ‘Quality Assurance’ – from the routine to the exceptional – and what impact this activity has on value in the client’s manufacturing process (cost, speed, quality and flexibility, for example)..

Finally, we offered options for strategic direction for improvement, combined with comprehensive and highly detailed potential improvements (using the 5S method).These ranged from maintaining the current system but fixing the most obvious issues, through to relocation and/or consolidation of laboratories, and optimisation and automation of Quality Assurance processes.. A digital methodology.

At Bryden Wood, we say that we are powered by technology as a methodology, a way of thinking that unlocks new approaches to complexity.Our Design to Value approach to master planning is an example of that.. Our Creative Technologies team has produced a number of digital configurators, including master planning tools for railways, roads and data centres.