Webinar: Exploring The Forge - a video insight into cutting-edge carbon reduction

Exploring The Forge: A Video Insight into Cutting-Edge Carbon Reduction.Bryden Wood’s unique, 10-step design approach to Passivhaus, and our adoption of Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA), facilitates the achievement of stringent Passivhaus performance targets, creating the perfect response to reduce construction cost and programme, whilst also responding to the labour skills shortage.

These can then be arranged on the site according to the engineers’ predefined rules e.g.proximity of the Chips to one another; which ones can/can’t be stacked, which ones have to be next to each other vs separated etc..

This allows an initial solution (or multiple solutions) to be developed, with pre-defined rules assuring compliance.These design solutions can be assessed and compared for optimisation of flows, simplicity of enabling works (cut and fill, extent of utilities works) etc..This is not a complete design solution but can quickly generate a working feasibility model so clients can make highly informed decisions in days or weeks and at a fraction of the cost of a non ‘reference design’ approach.

Clients can even take a virtual tour to aid their insight, feedback and input.The design and procurement stages that follow can then also be compressed through focusing time and effort only on the bespoke elements of the largely standardised design.

This approach has been enormously powerful for our clients: the ability to rapidly assess the viability of sites has saved months of uncertainty and prevented the inefficiency of wasted work.. Configuring Reference Design.

The rule and data-led thinking that defines Chips and how they can fit together in a design e.g.Performance gap reduced to minimum: Its all-encompassing energy assessment methodology and bespoke design software (Passive House Planning Package) offers a different approach to the compliance-focused UK energy modelling, which results in performance gap being largely avoided.. Ultra-low energy/carbon and lower operational costs: Passivhaus designs achieve low-energy consumption.

Rapid grid decarbonisation and the use of high efficiency heat pumps results in extremely low carbon emissions and gives clients the option of going net zero in operation through the use of additional PV or green electricity tariffs.When coupled with building mounted renewables, it can deliver low to non-existent energy bills to occupants, with some designs capable of being cost negative over the course of the year..

Excellent Occupant Experience: Both Passivhaus and Bryden Wood believe that environmental performance should not come at the expense of occupant experience.This is reflected in the designs targeting both the Passivhaus Thermal Comfort criterion as well as CIBSE TM 59, which ensures adequate thermal performance.. Resilient and adaptable to different climate conditions: Passivhaus also provides additional resilience by adopting a design based on passive design strategies coupled with technological solutions that can easily be upgraded, refurbished and replaced.