This allows the data centre to rely solely on the heat rejection plant and no chillers - minimising energy consumption and resulting in low PUE values.
The design aspects that support this include:.Facilitating contact with family and society.
A normalising environment.Appropriate levels of autonomy, while recognising the need to maintain prisoner and staff safety.Importance of mobile and static technology.
Green, clean, tidy spaces.Flexible, multi-use buildings to support education and work-centric activity.
Decent staff facilities.
A progressive regime.Manufacturers have understood this for decades and spent a great deal of effort developing highly productive assembly routines that enabled the mass production, automation and commoditisation that fuelled the consumer age.. Too often factories are treated as ‘construction sites in a shed' producing bespoke, custom components with overlapping trades and poor works sequencing, causing reduced value and the same inefficiencies that are often found on construction sites.
We want the factories that produce components for the construction industry to be more like the best factories making consumer goods; highly efficient, controlled and focused on achieving the highest throughput for the lowest cost, without compromising on quality..In short, we want factories to be less like construction sites.. Construction Platforms: our MMC approach to achieving the best mix of on-site and off-site construction.
At Bryden Wood, we have over 25 years’ experience applying all types of MMC solutions to a huge range of projects.Our industry-leading approach to MMC has developed over the years to consider ways to maximise the productivity of both off-site and on-site construction works to achieve better project outcomes for our clients.. Much of our thinking has been published on our website, particularly in our series of books about Construction Platforms, including the recently updated.