Nicola Moriarty

Adapting building design for COVID and beyond.

It’s been a positive experience with Bryden Wood, and a pathway that others should take a closer look at.”.Find out more about apprenticeships.

A good place to look is.www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship.where Kane started his journey.

You can see what is available here, and the many other career options apprenticeships give you.And if you’d like to know more about the tech-led approach to engineering in construction, search “Bryden Wood”.Head of Sustainability, Helen Hough, joined Bryden Wood in November 2018.

In addition to developing passive design solutions for our clients, she is also a tutor to 5th year MArch students at the Manchester School of Architecture.

I caught up with her to find out why, for best effect, architects should be incorporating M&E and Sustainability strategies as part of their initial design.. IP: Tell us about your work with Manchester School of Architecture.. HH: I’m tutoring 5th year students who are doing their Part 2, MArch.Our M&E design challenge was to look at the entire office environment and standardise the design of the M&E systems to deliver outstanding performance, while controlling costs and ensuring that the exposed services were aesthetically appealing as well.. Driving value in M&E building services at the Forge.

Our solution was to use a small variety of repeatable elements.Across the entire project, we have minimised the variety of types and sizes of equipment and distribution modules.

This is to ensure repeatability, without compromising the performance of the building, both in terms of energy consumption and user comfort.Doing this allows us to combine efficiency of performance with economies of scale on buying, for example, larger quantities of single gauge of pipe.. For ease of installation, we use pre-wired electrical products wherever possible.