Rising Carbon Emissions.

Decent staff facilities.A progressive regime.

The PETP team viewed emerging potential design solutions through two key lenses: effectiveness and efficiency.‘Effectiveness’ is the ability of a design to deliver the required rehabilitative outcome, while ‘efficiency’ is the total whole life cost required to achieve this outcome..This collaborative assessment process included data visualisations and the transparent, objective evaluation of different potential solutions.

The team was able to balance the different and often competing interests of stakeholders using a range of techniques, including use of Virtual Reality (VR) to simulate how the new building would work and help them understand and contribute to the design..Gathering feedback from groups including prison staff and those delivering services in prisons gained buy-in and approval from all levels – from senior policy makers to operational staff – and meant we were able to demonstrate best overall value for money.. Translating evidence into design.

All of this evidence gathering, consultation and collaboration had profound effect on the design:.

Significant emphasis has been put on visiting facilities.We must alter the way we design and build dramatically, both to keep pace with the needs of society and to prevent the acceleration of global warming.. At Bryden Wood, we are showing how this can be achieved through a process of industry collaboration and the adoption of modern methods of construction (MMC).

By MMC, we mean all forms of innovation in construction - physical forms like P-DfMA, as well as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), robotics, data, automation, point cloud surveys, and so on… This is all in addition to the frequently used term ‘offsite’ which, in fact, only represents one aspect of MMC, or industrialized construction.We aren’t exclusively referring to the process of manufacturing large modules in factories and moving everything off construction sites.

Although offsite will certainly form part of the solution, we propose to use a full range of new techniques and technologies, including platform design.Our approach creates an entirely new way of working, one which sets out to achieve the best possible outcomes right from the start.