The Forge, a commercial office development with Landsec in central London, is the first major building to use P-DfMA from building design to delivery.

Enhanced design process:.Understand how reference design amplifies benefits, allowing for extensive stakeholder engagement and the integration of best practices into a repeatable design, leading to improvements in asset operation and maintenance..

Continual improvement cycle:.Learn about the cyclical nature of improvement in reference design, where lessons learned from ongoing operations are integrated into future iterations, fostering continual enhancement rather than constant reinvention.. Strategic site selection and design optimisation:.Explore how reference design aids in rapid site viability testing and decision-making, optimising design while ensuring compliance with technical standards..

Streamlined project lifecycle:.Understand how reference design accelerates the entire project process, from site selection to design and procurement, reducing design fees, expediting procurement, and providing certainty to the supply chain.. Watch the video above and find out how Bryden Wood's reference design approach reshapes the construction landscape, benefiting all stakeholders involved and significantly reducing project timelines.

The video not only highlights the immediate advantages of this method but also ties it to broader themes like design automation and construction platform adoption.Some landmark buildings gain their status retrospectively, as their significance only reveals itself with the benefit of hindsight.

Others are designed deliberately with the intention of being ‘iconic’..This type of glazing provides comparable security without the need for bars addressing specific security threats, preventing waste being thrown from windows and reducing noise spreading beyond the prison wall.. Social interaction between staff and prisoners is key to rehabilitation.

Victorian-style gallery blocks with a warden’s desk at one end have been abandoned in favour of a staff station placed more centrally, in a way that encourages interaction rather than observation.. Main, central functions like dining, exercise equipment and access to medical care have been broken up and placed in each house block.Each block can contain a kitchen for communal cooking, classrooms, cardio gym equipment, a medicine point and laundry services, to create an environment more conducive to rehabilitation..

The prisons are designed with the ability to fine-tune security.The design allows operators the flexibility to use different houseblocks to ‘upgrade’ and ‘downgrade’ security as needed,to accommodate prisoners with different needs.. Current status.