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The client should carry out a cost benefit analysis of the requested laboratory equipment, as overpromising on lab equipment early on can lead to issues with laboratory design layout and services down the line.

For more information about the proposed strategy, see:.Repurposing Coal: how a P-DfMA approach will help coal-fired power stations fight climate change.

Bryden Wood unveils digital platform for decarbonising electricity production by 2050Above - in this video, Architecture Director Steven Tilkin describes Bryden Wood's approach to designing a new type of prison [image MoJ].. An innovative approach from an innovative Ministry.The cycle of re-offending is a huge cost to the UK economy.A 2016 study of a group of offenders who re-offended within 12 months of release from prison estimated that the total economic and social cost of reoffending was £18.1 billion..

The Prison Estate Transformation Programme (PETP) was a programme of 10,000 ‘new for old’ adult prison places across six sites (plus one new house block) at an estimated value £1.3 billion.The full PETP programme was retired and superseded by a new programme, but, at the time, it provided an opportunity to develop a new type of prison environment using a platform based Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) approach – one whose core purpose was to increase the likelihood of rehabilitation and reduce re-offending rates.

This was used in the design of the two prisons being delivered under PETP (HMP Five Wells at Wellingborough and at Glen Parva) and formed the basis for the current capacity programme.

It would do this by:.'From day one at Edged, my role as Director of Design is really trying to develop our language - call it our ‘kit of parts’ - that is agnostic to site, that can address as much of the range of constraints a site can provide, and that allows us to have repeatable components we can manage, condition, and learn from as we deploy them in projects and see the site adaptation that occurs when we do that.'.

By viewing each data centre as part of a coherent system, Edged can design and build with greater efficiency.Rather than starting from scratch for every project, the team focuses on standardising essential components, creating a ‘platform’ that allows for repeated deployments - each time with lessons learnt fed back into the model.. Why Industrialised Construction makes sense.

Traditional construction often requires multiple on-site trades performing one-off tasks, which can be time-consuming, costly, and prone to errors.In contrast, Lincoln points out that data centres, with their highly engineered interiors, are prime candidates for a more industrialised, standardised approach.