The range of measures to improve indoor air quality and hygiene is quite wide.
It’s just an idea that’s coming back, growing in scale, and becoming more mainstream.. Another issue we have in the construction industry, she explains, is that when we talk about this type of industrialised construction work, we tend to focus on the projects we consider to be the sexy, quirky ones.We talk about the asterisk, which will never be done again..
In actuality, her volumetric modular company had built hundreds of schools for New York City.It was a case of lots of buildings and big applications.She says these are the industrialised construction projects we need to be talking about - the ones that everyone needs to do.. Kit-of-parts architecture and the benefits of standardisation.
Jaimie Johnston MBE, Head of Global Systems at Bryden Wood and Design Lead for the Construction Innovation Hub, is equally enthusiastic about the changes taking place within the industry.and the shift toward industrialised construction.
He reminds us that post-war housing was built using a kit-of-parts approach and that Roman forts were prefabricated.
A thought-leader and leading author within the MMC/Platform construction space, Johnston talks about the development of the.ROSA GIMENO, DIRECTOR, ARCHITECTURE.
‘I think that finding women working in construction now is much more normal than it was years ago, especially in the architecture sector.Here at Bryden Wood, there’s no differentiation at all.
We actually even have some design teams that are all women.You can find women in all different positions from Assistant to Director, so it’s very good.’.
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