A digitised planning process will involve a change in the way architects are required to produce some information on their designs, and it will enforce a rigour and consistency in the technical elements of designs (which does not imply or require any constraint on creativity).
We’ve seen that in some circumstances we can deliver change, really quickly.The question now is, what are we going to do next?.
Construction technology: Building with agility and building agility in.In the Creative Technologies team at Bryden Wood, we’ve been working for some time with Highways England on smart motorways.We developed our Rapid Engineering Model, or REM – a digital workflow that absorbs a huge range of data sets and design rules and generates a variety of outputs.
These outputs – including virtual reality motorway driving – allow us to visualise and assess risks and opportunities of a smart motorway at the earliest planning stages.It takes a few days to do what used to take months..
This approach – harnessing wide-ranging data, applying it creatively, iterating rapidly – can be applied in any number of other contexts, and we are currently working on several initiatives that need rapid implementation in the post-COVID world.
Watch this space.. It’s all about agility; the ability to plan and respond to changing circumstances in complex situations.Within Bryden Wood I don’t feel that there are any blockers.
I have felt it in other companies that I’ve worked, but no.I think there are enough [female] role models at very very senior levels that there aren’t any blockers within it..
There are enough examples of extremely great women out there who are doing some really really great things, that people don’t see it as men and women, just your colleagues, and that’s where we’ve needed to get to and I think that’s where we’re at.. To a young woman considering a role in engineering, I would say, ‘do it.’ It will take you wherever you want to go.If you want to stay local to your area, you can.