Improving productivity in construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company. Part 2 of 2.
demonstrate Bryden Wood’s capability in providing specialist façade design and detailing services.
It also means that more people can become involved in the decision about which solution is best for a particular site or project.This increase in participation leads to far greater benefits for the project than just progressing in a very linear way, resulting in one solution produced by a single design team.
On top of this, having the ability to generate a data model and undertake significant amounts of simulation, allows aspects of a design to be tested much more rigorously than by traditional means.Together, all of these factors culminate in the delivery of the best possible buildings.. Education, Construction Technology and the Future of Construction.At Bryden Wood, our aim is to change the process of design through the use and adoption of technology.
As we do this, we need to start to attract more diverse people into the industry.Working with technology in new and exciting ways helps with the industry’s broader image.
In addition to our well-known problems with inefficient processes and insufficient output, the construction industry faces other, compounding issues - namely, a serious skills shortage and an aging workforce.
As a result, it’s vitally important that we begin to encourage young people to come and join us.Discussion in the room moved to nuclear self-generation for a while and how far we are away from viable small nuclear power self-generation.
The modular size of small nuclear is critical.Due to the need for power resilience, sites would need to have some arrangement of N+1 power units – if each unit is too large then the investment costs would be simply too high.
The modularity of SMRs and suitability to support DC loads will be important.. Licencing and regulation of nuclear power.Small modular reactors are looking to address some of the licensing and regulation issues with repeatable modular design.. Based upon conversations and work with the small nuclear development ecosystem, there was a stated view that an industrialised modular nuclear offering is 20 years in the future.