Streamlined design and construction.
Within a wider context, the construction industry itself is fundamental to the implementation of these social values.It is central to the delivery of places in which people live, work and socialise, in addition to the connections between these places and communities.
Measured in the UK, the construction sector is the sixth largest in terms of employment and is responsible for over 12% of the UK’s 5.9m small and medium-sized enterprises.Although already one of the leading industries for numbers of apprenticeships, greater emphasis must be placed on diversification of the workforce and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).Doing so will help us to deliver the projects of the future and further increase social value in construction..
The considerable increase in focus within the industry on the sustainable design, construction and use of buildings in recent decades suggests there is an appetite and ability to overlay additional value criteria onto the commissioning and appraisal of architectural schemes.Bryden Wood’s principle of Design to Value and the promotion of DfMA looks to bridge this gap, as the construction industry transitions to MMC.
As well as this, our focus on data and metrics sets us aside from traditional practices.
We are well versed in using this data to evaluate, improve and continuously review our projects.Repowering the existing coal power plants using advanced heat sources presents a key political opportunity to garner bipartisan support for climate action in a way that maintains jobs, socio-economic benefits and tax revenues in those communities.. Another key point to consider is that the majority of the existing, global coal fleet is just fourteen years old, representing a trillion dollars of unrecovered capital.
The prospect of the retirement of that fleet is highly unattractive for most of those owners and investors.However, if we repower the existing coal power plants with advanced heat sources instead of shutting them down, the plants will likely run at a much higher capacity factor than they do today and at lower cost.
This will make them even more profitable.There will also be the potential to add other value driving services, such as atmospheric carbon removal, as well as hydrogen production with the cooling towers.