If the BSA onus is on ensuring the design doesn’t change from specification to delivery, then the exactness of the design and the tolerances is crucial..
Necessity sorted that one out.Some businesses have struggled, but many more have found that working from home isn’t such a big deal and are wondering what all the fuss was about..
In the built environment, we didn’t have time to wonder how two-metre social distancing might work, we just had to get on and do it.COVID-19 forced our hand.We also had a tantalising glimpse of what car-free cities look like and, better yet, sound and smell like (even if things went back to how they were pretty quickly).. We know it can be done.
We’ve seen that in some circumstances we can deliver change, really quickly.The question now is, what are we going to do next?.
Construction technology: Building with agility and building agility in.
In the Creative Technologies team at Bryden Wood, we’ve been working for some time with Highways England on smart motorways.International Women’s Day is quite a big topic in the industry because there are more men in leading roles.
It is more male dominated at the moment, but I don’t think it’s something that can’t change and I would say that it’s becoming more of a nice mix.I see more and more women participating, especially coming from academia and those joining the industry too..
The ethos of the office at Bryden Wood is very good and very strong in terms of letting everybody, both men and women, participate and provide opinions that are heard.. We’re working on a bigger effort here...trying to demystify the [robotics] technology for as many people as possible, so that we are all on the same page as we try to implement and adopt it within the construction industry...If we’re talking about offsite construction, automation is essential to scale up.
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