Since joining Bryden Wood, Bernat has taken part in the design of residential, governmental and industrial projects.
You escape by stopping fighting, doing something different to what feels like the right and obvious thing; and by exposing the plant to light..In my inaugural lecture in the autumn, I suggested that one of our biggest challenges to solve going forward is trying to get free of the tendrils that bind us.
Another metaphor is to reduce the viscosity of business.I don’t know whether you have ever made a non-Newtonian fluid by mixing cornflour with water?As soon as you try to move the fluid its viscosity rises exponentially; in fact, people have walked across swimming pools of the stuff.. For me, both the Devil’s Snare and the cornflour explain one of the key reasons why we fail in doing the great things we are all capable of.
We become wedded to one way of doing them and when we don’t get the results we want, we think we just need to try harder, to struggle more or to do more work.The results are the opposite to what we expect.. You can see this all around us in the season of festivities.
We all have our own playbook, a list of traditions, menu, set of rituals.
If doing these things doesn’t make everybody happy we just need to do more of them, try harder, and put more effort in.. We get caught in the Devil’s Snare.. As Hermione Granger knew, the alternative is to stop struggling and bring light to where we are.This process of fine tuning the concrete enables it to be kept as low-carbon as possible, optimising it for strength, while still keeping the building process as quick as possible.
It’s a good example of the improvements made viable with prototyping, which aren’t achievable when a project is live on-site for the first time.This transformational process of on-going refinement and progress isn’t possible in traditional construction, where every building is bespoke.
It’s yet another benefit of a Platform construction approach, which helps us to achieve greater sustainability in design..Addressing the climate emergency in construction.
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