Bryden Wood launch P-DfMA solution for offices with Landsec

Professor Whyte advocates for a standardised approach to components and systems, which can lead to improvements in quality, speed, and sustainability of construction projects.. 4.

The reliance of traditional construction on variable quality of workmanship/skill of the site operative makes it difficult to guarantee that what was drawn and specified is actually what is installed..The design of platform interfaces is so accurate it reduces reliance on skilled trades and workmanship and provides a visual and straightforward Quality Assurance process, for greater consistency and accuracy:.

The manufactured brackets that create the interfaces between beams and columns use very simple standardise tasks (bolted together vs requiring specialist steel erectors) ensuring a level of consistency normally unachievable in traditional construction..Brackets are designed in a way that they can only be installed correctly (referred to as ‘poka-yoke’ in manufacturing) making it impossible for an error to occur or making the error immediately obvious.In addition, the brackets are colour coded, with each colour relating to a specific condition, e.g.

end of bay, base of column etc.Each colour is also liked to a series of standard tasks, such as a number of bolts and setting on their torque wrench.

So, the operatives need only match the colour with the type of interface.

Platforms also simplify installation down into a series of simple, repeatable, highly productive, activities, which make the sequence of work entirely predictable, the quality assured and the speed of assembly vastly increased.. Key insight.demonstrator projects’.

that will prove how innovation can transform construction..This is a landmark moment.

But it is also the latest chapter in a long story of Government-led collaborations with private sector clients and a new kind of supply chain, resulting in real progress and real, tangible outcomes, which benefit both private and public sectors..It is this kind of sustained, intelligent and joined-up collaborative approach that will bring about sector-wide positive change.