UK construction companies have been slow to enable staff to be part of committees where standards are created.
However, if we don’t make this evident to them, they’ll go to work for pure technology companies instead.Construction and the wider built environment will miss out.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.We took SEISMIC, our school design app, to a primary school in Hackney.This digitally intuitive generation of Minecraft players already have many of the skills we need.
They were excited by the app.It stimulated their creativity and imaginations.
We must begin exploring these subjects with children earlier, encouraging education around topics like automation and DfMA, alongside digital skills, tools and techniques in degree courses.
These subjects shouldn’t be perceived as specialisms.Available to purchase at.At Bryden Wood, our work spans many sectors at the leading edge of technological innovation.
One rapidly growing sector with a pivotal role in the global energy transition is the construction of lithium-ion battery manufacturing plants for electric vehicles (EVs)..Battery manufacturers such as CATL, BYD, LG Energy Solution, Panasonic, and others are expanding their portfolios of complex new gigafactories.
These facilities handle chemicals, metals, and intermediate products with stringent safety and environmental control requirements, often in direct partnership with carmakers like GM and Tesla..The costs and timescales associated with constructing such facilities are immense..