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Built Environment Matters

Bryden Woodwww.brydenwood.com

Founded 28 years ago, Bryden Wood champions a radical transformation in design and construction. Our global team delivers comprehensive services across architecture, engineering, and digital delivery, driving innovation from concept to completion.


We've led projects like the UK's first net-zero commercial building and Europe's highest IT yield data centre, showcasing our commitment to sustainability and efficiency. Our approach harnesses digital tools and manufacturing processes for smarter, faster solutions.


Emphasising systematic, standardised, and configurable solutions, we align with the rapid evolution of technology in energy, healthcare, and infrastructure. Our 'Design to Value' ethos seeks not only cost and time efficiency but societal benefit.


On the Built Environment Matters podcast, we share insights, innovations, and thought leadership from industry experts and our own groundbreaking projects. Whether you're a professional in the built environment or simply passionate about the future of design, this podcast offers thought-provoking discussions and actionable ideas.

Tune in to explore how we're modernising critical infrastructure and shaping a better, more sustainable world.


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Episodes

Part 1: Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company in conversation with Board Director, Jaimie Johnston on our construction podcast

Josh Johnson brings his perspective - and McKinsey insights - on the construction industry, including the current market, trends and developments. Send us a text To learn more about Bryden Wood's Design to Value philosophy, visit www.brydenwood.com . You can also follow Bryden Wood on LinkedIn.

Apr 14, 202128 minSeason 1Ep. 8

Industrializing Construction: Amy Marks on Productization, DfMA, and the Future of Building

Join us for an exciting episode of Built Environment Matters, where Jaimie Johnston MBE, Head of Global Systems at Bryden Wood, welcomes Amy Marks, the Queen of Prefab and Head of Industrialized Construction Strategy at Autodesk. This conversation dives deep into: The shift from traditional construction to i ndustrialized methodologies. How DfMA and productization are redefining efficiency and sustainability. The critical need for standardization and collaboration across the construction ecosyst...

Mar 10, 20211 hr 24 minSeason 1Ep. 7

Sustainable Design: creating low carbon, sustainable buildings - delivering a sustainable future

Bryden Wood's Head of Sustainability and Building Physics, Helen Hough, joins Jaimie Johnston to talk about all things sustainable design: From how Platform construction (P-DfMA) helps to lower embodied carbon, to designing buildings to the WELL Building Standard, with COVID-19 in mind. Helen Hough also gives an overview of the various built environment institutions working towards a more sustainable future from LETI to CIBSE to RIBA, Passivehaus and BREEAM. And so much more...battery technology...

Feb 09, 202130 minSeason 1Ep. 6

Build Back Better and The Construction Innovation Hub: Jaimie Johnston talks to Keith Waller about Shaping the Future of Construction with Platform Construction, DfMA, Social Value and Sustainable Design

In addition to Jaimie Johnston's role as Board Director at Bryden Wood, he is also the Design Lead at the Construction Innovation Hub. In this episode, he talks to his CIH colleague, Keith Waller, who is the Program Director at The Hub. They will talk about the future of the construction industry, the role of Government and how UK construction could lead the world. The Construction Innovation Hub brings together world-class expertise from the BRE, the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) and th...

Jan 11, 202133 minSeason 1Ep. 5

PRiSM Housing Design App for Residential Architecture: Saving Architects Time & Building Better with DfMA, Automated Design and Construction Technology

This month, Bryden Wood Creative Technologies Director Jami Cresser-Brown talks about how digital technologies and automating design can turbocharge housing and modern methods of construction, the ground-breaking PRiSM app, and why some architects should think more like primary school children. Artwork: Megan Chown, Bryden Wood Podcast Music : Tamar Zak-Collins Send us a text To learn more about Bryden Wood's Design to Value philosophy, visit www.brydenwood.com . You can also follow Bryden Wood ...

Dec 09, 202024 minSeason 1Ep. 4

Applying a Design to Value Approach to Construction Project Management: Process Engineering, Chip Thinking® and Modern Methods of Construction

Design to Value in Process Engineering: John Dyson, former VP of Capital Strategy at GSK joins host, Jaimie Johnston MBE, to describe his award-wining approach to process design and explains how embracing uncertainty changes projects from miserable to exciting, and delivers real value for clients. Artwork: Megan Chown, Bryden Wood Podcast Music : Tamar Zak-Collins Send us a text To learn more about Bryden Wood's Design to Value philosophy, visit www.brydenwood.com . You can also follow Bryden Wo...

Nov 11, 202041 minSeason 1Ep. 3

Shaping the Future of Architecture and Design with New Technologies in Construction: Platform Design (P-DfMA) and other Modern Methods of Construction (MMC)

We’ve talked extensively about the benefits a Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) can bring to a construction project, namely cost savings, increased safety on site, better quality, more sustainable buildings. But, what does a plausible future look like in practice if government and the private sector adopt this way of working. Board Director and Head of Global Systems, Jaimie Johnston, explores what's technically achievable in a near future state and how construct...

Oct 06, 202029 minSeason 1Ep. 2

A Platforms Approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA): Maximising Value with Lean Construction and Sustainable Design

Bryden Wood Board Director and Head of Global Systems, Jaimie Johnston MBE, talks about a platform approach to design for manufacture and assembly (P-DfMA) and how it can benefit architects, the construction industry, the built environment and society as a whole. Bryden Wood is a technology-led design company focused on Design to Value in construction. Their pioneering work with platform design enables sets of components or assemblies to be configured in a variety of different ways, in order to ...

Sep 02, 202058 minSeason 1Ep. 1
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