(traditional and alternative structures).

Ultimately, you will have a happy client who won’t have to pay as much to run the building every year.With the Circle Reading project, architects Bryden Wood have employed a design ethic powered by both clinical practicality and build efficiency, delivering a hospital not only visually distinctive, but one which utilises insightful, use-driven design and cutting edge manufacturing processes.It’s a space which continually upends expectations - a structure of steel and concrete, much of which was built offsite..

The achievement has been made possible by the implementation of a bespoke Design for Manufacture and Assembly system, which Bryden Wood developed in conjunction with Circle and tailored specifically for their needs.Ultimately, the system played a key role in the creation of Adaptable Platforms.which Board Director Jaimie Johnston says, ‘allows a far wider range of clients to get the same benefits without the need to create a new system.’.

Speaking about the innovative qualities of the Circle project, Co-Founder Martin Wood comments that Circle Reading was the first exercise to really connect design and construction in such an intimate way.‘The platform principle completely enshrines design and construction as a single entity,’ he says.

‘It’s effectively a way of thinking, a principle where the rationale in design supports the rationale in construction in a fully unified, virtuous circle effect.’.

Johnston elaborates, explaining that the project employed an ‘evidence based approach’ to ‘balance various and often contradictory [stakeholder] needs.’ These included those of individual clinical specialisms, nursing staff, catering providers, facilities and maintenance providers, the Care Quality Commission etc...We need to create a kind of man-made reef in the ocean to provide some information within all of that water.

She believes productising construction will form exactly such a reef.. What is productisation in construction?.The way things currently stand in the construction industry, every building we create is essentially a prototype.

This means that our built assets are riddled with all the inefficiency of one-off designs and custom components.But just as people no longer have their shoes tailor-made by a shoe maker, it’s time for the construction industry to embrace change and forge a new path toward progress.