In the Creative Technologies team at Bryden Wood, we’ve been working for some time with Highways England on smart motorways.

Our architects and engineers are driven to create a highly productive, digitally-led industry, which improves the sustainability, efficiency and aesthetic quality of all aspects of the built environment.The ensuing benefit lowers the financial and carbon cost of assets to business and society.

It is for this reason, we’re delighted to join a coalition of leading industry professionals who have contributed to a new guide and primer illustrating how the industry can work together and address the climate emergency..The Climate Emergency Design Guide.Embodied Carbon Primer.

are being published by LETI - the London Energy Transformation Initiative.LETI is a voluntary network of over 1000 built environment professionals who are working together to put London on the path to a zero carbon future.

The publications will be free to access and are being backed by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers (CIBSE), as well leading businesses.

Gary Clark, Chair of RIBA Sustainable Futures Group, comments, ‘2020 is the year of climate action.There is great scope for the construction industry to innovate and develop new MMC methods to expand the toolkit and enhance the DfMA designer’s ability to achieve benefits on future construction projects..

Under the MHCLG categorisation, volumetric modular construction (known in Singapore as Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction or PPVC and in Hong Kong as Modular Integrated Construction or MiC) is an example of a 3D primary structural system..In addition to volumetric solutions, many other different MMC methods including flat-pack and componentised systems are primarily prefabricated and are often grouped under the umbrella term “Offsite”..

The future of construction: not just components.The MHCLG categorisation of MMC is comprehensive and includes the application of digital tools to drive productivity improvements both on site and in factories.