And key to their success is that everyone on these teams, no matter how big or small their role, has a fundamental understanding of and input into the aims and vision of the project.. Of course, emerging from more specialised disciplines means that it can take some time for people to feel comfortable collaborating on a deep level.

reference designs.and pre-manufactured components enables quick adaptation to changes in battery chemistry or manufacturing processes.. As consumer demand for EVs grows, deploying right-sized facilities with standardised design templates and rapid-build DfMA methodologies will help meet increasing battery capacity needs, accelerating the global energy transition..

Learn more about the benefits of Industrialised Construction.Although front and centre at this event, laboratories and the professionals intimately involved with them are often overlooked when considering their social and economic value..In fact, the word laboratory can immediately conjure up people in white coats doing tests on wooden benches.So far, so 1990.. During the Covid pandemic, a light was briefly shone on labs’ enormous significance to our lives.

We waited for test results to allow us to go to work, we looked for information about new variants and we waited for a vaccine.This highlighted briefly just some of the important and transformational work that happens in thousands of laboratories by millions of scientists and technicians.. Now, however, labs have moved to the background once again.. Before collating and expressing the insightful views about laboratories of the future tabled at this event, it feels important to define laboratory in the context of this conversation.

Those present represented lab innovation – from pure research to routine mass-testing; from medical, pharmaceutical and genetics, to battery technology..

The need to focus on the future function of labs, rather than generic labs was clear..HH: Sustainability is a broad term and I think you can separate it up quite a lot.

In terms of what we do here at Bryden Wood, we’re mostly focused on the environmental side of sustainability.We have a focus on building physics, with the aim of reducing energy costs for occupiers, as well as reducing carbon emissions.

We’re also particularly committed to looking at the whole life of a building, so this also encompasses the embodied carbon within materials — from construction methods all the way through to how that material operates.It’s very much a cradle to grave approach.