Platform design and the future of construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with our Head of Global Systems, Jaimie Johnston MBE

It’s yet another benefit of a Platform construction approach, which helps us to achieve greater sustainability in design..

If you wanted a 5-year pay back with such a saving, you could afford to invest over £600Billion.There is a direct synergy between financial return and moving to renewable energy..

The payback, the value generated for doing the right thing on the environment is immense, in monetary terms and in our living environment and in protection of people and biodiversity; and in feeling that we are part of a generation that acted and made the world a better place for everybody.These are things in our power and reach.We can reap the hard-won benefits of technology and freedoms while at the same time repairing the world..

Professor John Dyson spent more than 25 years at GlaxoSmithKline, eventually ending his career as VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Design, where he focussed on developing a long-term strategic approach to asset management..While there, he engaged Bryden Wood and together they developed the Front End Factory, a collaborative endeavour to explore how to turn purpose and strategy into the right projects – which paved the way for Design to Value.

He is committed to the betterment of lives through individual and collective endeavours.. As well as his business and pharmaceutical experience, Dyson is Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham, focussing on project management, business strategy and collaboration.. Additionally, he is a qualified counsellor with a private practice and looks to bring the understanding of human behaviour into business and projects.. To learn more about our Design to Value philosophy, read Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology by Professor John Dyson, Mark Bryden, Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood.

Available to purchase at.Design to Value book.In 2015, the Singapore Government published the.

Essential Guide to BIM for DfMA.which was authored by Bryden Wood in conjunction with BCA.

The Guide was intended to demonstrate the opportunities that DfMA (and particularly PPVC) could bring to projects, but also to consider and explain typical BIM considerations that should be taken at each stage of a DfMA project to set it up for success..Essential Guide to BIM for DfMA.