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 have brought it into line with current building regulations, and industry best practice, through good modern design.. We are now in the installation stage and our role is working with the contractor to ensure the mechanical and electrical systems installed meet the client brief and design vision.The works should be complete early 2022.. Pharmaceutical Facility Design for GSK.
We've done a lot of work for GSK over four sites now, principally in Stevenage, where we built a new cryogenics building.This was a really interesting project because there are two things in it that are probably unique, certainly in the UK, if not in the world..This building contains hundreds of thousands of samples, stored in vats of liquid nitrogen at -278o centigrade.
Currently, accessing the samples is a manual process which exposes the users to risk of asphyxiation due to their close proximity to the liquid Nitrogen.As the Nitrogen evaporates, a blanket of cold Nitrogen forms on the floor and rises upwards, thereby excluding the oxygen necessary for human life.. For the new facility, they wanted to make sure no-one had to go near the storage vessels.
So they commissioned a US company called Brooks to design a robot that could collect samples and deliver them to the scientist, in a way that’s a bit like a vending machine.
Our challenge was to design and build the building around the robot system which was a world first and still in development.. Additionally, the way Bryden Wood have designed the extraction systems is a UK - and probably world first.Data Driven Infrastructure: From digital tools to manufactured components (2017).
Delivery Platforms for Government Assets is primarily focused on buildings rather than infrastructure.Without duplicating the content from the earlier book, this horizontal assets book highlighted some current, relevant initiatives that were being deployed for clients - including Highways England and Crossrail - that could be replicated as a standardised, P-DfMA approach across a range of horizontal infrastructure projects in the highways, rail and water sectors.. View and download here:.
Data Driven Infrastructure: From digital tools to manufactured componenents..Platforms: Bridging the gap between construction and manufacturing (2018).