The Dyson blog: Using curiosity to weave a new perspective

A lot of projects were cancelled, including highway schemes and school building programmes.

Local authorities, housing associations and developers can use the app to drive standardisation across their estates, using a pattern book of apartments to deliver projects more efficiently, and achieving benefits like standardised maintenance regimes.Manufacturers benefit from learning more about the types of buildings architects working with MMC techniques can design.

Contractors can use the app to validate designs and rebuild an architect’s work very quickly.PRiSM can also be used to model schemes for a tender, investigating how much module variation exists within a volumetric modular scheme, for example.. PRiSM 2.0: The Addition of Geospatial Data Layers.In 2020, Bryden Wood launched PRiSM 2.0, providing more granular control to the user.

We increased the typologies contained within the app and expanded the pattern book of apartments to provide additional variety.We increased design freedom, giving users the ability to do things like reposition entrances in order to better respond to a site.. One of the biggest additions came with the introduction of geospatial data layers, which provide better understanding of the context around a site.

This includes things like building heights, land classifications which reference conservation areas, transport infrastructure to gauge density more appropriately, highways information, which has a bearing on construction access restrictions, and even types of trees..

In future, we hope to develop the app even further, to include elements like early stage embodied carbon assessment capability as well as expanding PRiSM’s geographical footprint which would require incorporating even more typologies.Despite these hurdles, there was agreement in the room that there was a vision across the industry and this was expressed as: -.

■ All solvents bio-sourced and head-ache free (safe and compliant).■ Use minimised.

■ Recycling maximised.Maybe these could be summed up with the joint sentiment that an industry focused on health should not conspire to harm the long-term well-being of society..