So while an inpatient room is optimised for patient comfort and the facilitation of day to day care activities, an operating theatre has more complex variables to incorporate: medical procedures, heightened levels of infection control plus the associated surgical staff, flows of clean and dirty consumables, carefully controlled flows of air, extensive use of medical equipment and data etc..

Johnston feels that the adoption of a more standardised, foundational approach will act as a springboard, setting up the opportunity to work with more sophisticated industrialised construction techniques like prefab and DfMA.. Amy Marks is fine with the idea of standardisation but thinks things also depend on how performance-based, or prescriptive those standards are.She cautions that we don’t want a level of standardisation where there isn’t space for innovation, or which “precludes fabrication.”.

These things really depend on who makes the standards, she says, what they are thinking of enabling in the future, and what their understanding of the future looks like.Not all policymakers are thinking about industrialised construction, prefabrication, or DfMA.They may be looking at things in terms of one particular market application, but not in terms of others.

So, standardisation doesn’t necessarily help us on its own, but it does have a shot of helping us if someone informs it in the right way.. She also points out that, although we could easily fight forever about industrialised construction terminology, the important thing is that the core concepts remain true.In particular, she reminds us that the term DfMA does not refer to the end product.

(traditional and alternative structures).

, but rather the choices we make upfront relating to the design, manufacture and assembly process..“Bryden Wood are currently sponsoring my HND in Building Services Engineering at Southbank University.

Once I complete that in 2021, I will study part time for a full degree in building services engineering whilst continuing to work.My aim is to become BIM Lead within M&E.”.

So is it all about computers?.“Technology is really important to what I do for Bryden Wood.