He talks about his experience working within the design and construction industry in Australia, and the way contractual risk is pushed down onto contractors, who then push it further down the chain.

approach means we are always looking for new ways to deliver the best value solutions for clients.This sometimes takes us in unexpected and surprising directions.

For example, one longstanding client of ours is an industrial plastics manufacturer who is strongly focused on improving their sustainability.For this client, Bryden Wood have designed facilities with excellent environmental performance, introduced green landscaping throughout their site and undertaken studies into the feasibility of achieving Net Zero carbon for the site’s base load energy consumption..However, none of these initiatives addresses the ‘elephant in the room’: the industrial plastics manufacturing process itself, which is heavily reliant on the carbon-intensive chemical production sector.. Chemical production is set to become ‘the single largest driver of global oil consumption by 2030’ according to a 2019 paper in the.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The chemical industry uses around 28% of all industrial energy and 10% of global final energy.

2. , which shows how vital it is for the industry to change if we are to reduce carbon emissions and help combat climate change..

This is a lot to accomplish, but it offers Bryden Wood an opportunity to make great steps towards this goal and lead by example, by promoting methods to reduce emissions in the chemical engineering sector.. We started studying this problem to see if it would be possible to produce plastics more sustainably.We aren’t exclusively referring to the process of manufacturing large modules in factories and moving everything off construction sites.

Although offsite will certainly form part of the solution, we propose to use a full range of new techniques and technologies, including platform design.Our approach creates an entirely new way of working, one which sets out to achieve the best possible outcomes right from the start.

This makes sure that the goals of quality, efficiency, suitability, productivity and sustainability inform every stage of the process.. By adopting a way of working that includes P-DfMA and a standard component design programme, we can achieve repeatable and consistent quality, and also facilitate operational and delivery excellence across projects.This goal has been identified as a focus for the future of UK construction by The Construction Innovation Hub, and the application of a Platform approach is discussed within the.