Existing offices may lack sufficient common areas or can pose problems for lab material and personnel flows throughout the wider building.. Office elevators sometimes aren’t big enough to transport larger lab equipment (e.g.
When this happens not only are exquisite solutions found, but there is positive change enacted through the engagement itself..Professor John Dyson spent more than 25 years at GlaxoSmithKline, eventually ending his career as VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Design, where he focussed on developing a long-term strategic approach to asset management..
While there, he engaged Bryden Wood and together they developed the Front End Factory, a collaborative endeavour to explore how to turn purpose and strategy into the right projects – which paved the way for Design to Value.He is committed to the betterment of lives through individual and collective endeavours.. As well as his business and pharmaceutical experience, Dyson is Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham, focussing on project management, business strategy and collaboration.. Additionally, he is a qualified counsellor with a private practice and looks to bring the understanding of human behaviour into business and projects.. To learn more about our Design to Value philosophy, read Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology by Professor John Dyson, Mark Bryden, Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood.Available to purchase at.How can we achieve sustainable construction?.
The construction sector is a major consumer of natural resources, yet the climate crisis demands smarter, more sustainable construction solutions.To achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals we must embrace environmental engineering, by doing everything we can to minimise human impact from the built environment and protect the natural world..
There is growing industry consensus that the way we design, build, operate and dispose of our buildings and associated facilities need a major overhaul.
Our aim must be to obviate waste, increase efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote construction methodologies that support both people and the environment..Still, at first glance, you’d be forgiven for not immediately recognising the building’s function as a state-of-the-art medical facility.
This is a hospital which, according to Bookings Team Leader Adam Chivers, patients often comment, ‘looks like a five star hotel.’.With its distinctive black glass, basket weave cladding, the hospital’s exterior panels seem to reflect the expansive movement of sky and clustered cloud formations from every angle.
It’s an aesthetic which manifests Bryden Wood’s belief that a hospital occupies a special status of building in society, one with such a substantial level of importance and value that it deserves to be signified in the very appearance of the structure.The physicality of the Circle Reading building is both luminous and reflective, fundamentally optimistic feeling, but also discreet and secure.