Significant volumetric changes can occur to timber exposed to changes in moisture, including swelling perpendicular to grain direction, warping, and bending of straight elements.
Broadening access to the profession is essential for fostering innovation, diversity, and resilience in the next generation of architects..This conversation with Satwinder Samra offers a thought-provoking exploration of architecture’s evolving role in society.
From creating inclusive pathways for aspiring architects to redefining how we approach design and collaboration, Satwinder’s insights inspire us to envision a more accessible and impactful future for the built environment..Learn more about how we support personal and professional development at Bryden Wood.For pretty much forever, on-site or in-situ construction has been the default way of building.However with accelerating interest in Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), it sometimes seems that on-site construction is falling out of favour..
In 2019, the UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) – as it was then called – published an MMC Definition Framework (see my earlier article,.What does DfMA stand for?).
This framework proposes Pre-Manufactured Value (PMV) as a metric for assessing the scale of MMC adoption on a project.
PMV is calculated as the percentage of cost that is derived before any site works and strongly encourages maximising the proportion of off-site works.. As a result, many parts of the construction industry are focusing more and more on off-site prefabrication in pursuit of benefits including lower cost, reduced delivery timescales, higher quality, improved health and safety, less waste and more productive site labour..The density debate.
The conversation started by discussing the trends in data centre density..Driven by the relentless development of CPU and GPU processing power, the need for ever greater power and cooling density at rack level continues to increase exponentially.
Data processed has roughly doubled every two years from 2 zettabytes in 2010 to 149 zettabytes in 2024, and the trend continues.It was suggested that the increase in processor power will lead to rack density increasing, with the 1MW rack already being envisaged..
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