A common language allows people with diverse areas of expertise, including those not normally involved in design and construction, to participate fully in design decisions.
The traditional, anti-nuclear left is beginning to become marginalised.In fact, Gogan says that the representation from nuclear, and the appetite for these new nuclear, advanced heat technologies, was strong at COP26.
She’s also pleased with the decision to have an annual holding to account, rather than the five year timeframe we’ve previously been using.Hopefully, she says, this will put more pressure on wealthy nations to demonstrate progress.. At Bryden Wood, we believe that making a shift towards smaller, repeatable, manufactured elements is an important part of the path forward.Approaching design and construction in this way helps to reduce material waste, producing more efficient and sustainable built assets.
When looking at the vast scale of a project like Hinkley Point, at its enormous costs and lengthy timescales, it’s clear to see what the problems are.We need a solution that’s much faster, more scalable and deployable, and we need it right away.
Hinkley Point is still a number of years off completion..
Achieving net zero by 2050.And that enables us to try lots of different options in a short amount of time.
As mentioned, this is a key element of our Design to Value approach, as it enables us to get closer to an optimum solution..Unfortunately, we sometimes find ourselves in the conventional engineering situation of having to limit the number of options that we look at because we haven't got the time or the resources to look at too many.
Clearly, it is fine to narrow down a set of options on a rational basis.But if it's simply that we don't have time, we are at risk of staying away from the optimum solution.