Battery plants typically have extremely large footprints to accommodate the linear assembly process.
They shouldn’t be overlooked just because people don’t spend a large portion of their day sitting in them.This might well present its own challenges..
The government recommends that all building owners and occupiers undertake a COVID-19 risk assessment before moving back into their office buildings.The health and safety of occupants is of paramount importance.But this moment also gives you an opportunity to make small changes to the way your systems operate; to make meaningful improvements to the efficiency of systems, control your energy bills and limit the impact of increased ventilation on the environment.105 Sumner Street - designed for development by Landsec - will be the first major building completed using our Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) approach from building design to delivery.. P-DfMA is a versatile and customisable construction system for commercial, residential and other building types.. P-DfMA consists of common parts, all made from readily available materials, which have been designed to go together in rehearsed ways.
Each part of the platform system has been designed to value based on its performance requirements..This standard kit of parts can be configured to offer a broad range of building products without limiting design ambition.
Design effort can be spent where it adds the most value – creating places where people want to live and work.. 105 Sumner Street consists of two new-build commercial office buildings, built around a publicly accessible internal courtyard, in total comprising c. 135,000 sq ft.
It will be nine storeys high with reception and basement areas.It received funding from.
, the UK’s innovation agency, in recognition of its transformational potential, demonstrating the benefits to all constituents of the platforms approach to design and construction.Merging Manufacturing and Construction The Forge is a key moment in construction..
It is the world’s first major commercial development to be designed and built using a platform approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA).Bryden Wood has developed P-DfMA over many years..
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