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After having experienced a number of crits, you will become increasingly independent in seeing your work through other people's points of views.

We include and consider as many variables as we can to make sure that the hospital will function as well as it can.. We produce detailed functional and support diagrams to guide the process.When these diagrams are agreed with our client, we create spatial diagrams, detailing all required rooms, their shapes and the relations between them.

This allows us to engage more specialist stakeholders, and make sure their requirements for each of the rooms are met.. We describe this approach as designing the hospital from the inside out.But we never lose sight of the architectural response to the brief.Creating a beautiful space is a value-driver in itself, with a proven link to clinical outcomes.

Nothing is in isolation..Flexibility through standardisation.

In the case of new build projects, our Platforms approach to design and construction will usually inform the concept design.

The principle of Platforms is to design to the commonalities between spaces both within and across sectors, with the result that construction can make use of a standard ‘kit of parts’.One topic which must be addressed in relation to the reduction of embodied carbon is the sustainable use of building materials.

This is an issue we’re particularly focused on at Bryden Wood, in our work with Platform construction.This transformative kit-of-parts approach enables a reduction in the quantity and weight of building materials.

With Platform construction we know exactly which components will go into a building.As a result, we’re able to give considerably more care and consideration to the design, procurement and construction of each individual part.