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

This ground-breaking P-DfMA office building project is currently being delivered on-site in London, featuring an almost 20% reduction in embodied carbon.It’s a fantastic achievement, and because The Forge is a Platforms construction project, we’ll be able to take what we’ve learned to create further benefits on future projects.. With the Forge, we’ve been able to prototype the project in advance of it going on-site.

We’ve been able to look at things like different concrete mixes, relating to the self-compacting nature of the concrete.Through evaluation of embodied carbon, we’ve been able to offer lower carbon concrete mixes, tested before being transferred.In this case, Easispace put temperature sensors in the concrete, with mobile phone alerts indicating when the concrete became strong enough to strike the shuttering.

This process of fine tuning the concrete enables it to be kept as low-carbon as possible, optimising it for strength, while still keeping the building process as quick as possible.It’s a good example of the improvements made viable with prototyping, which aren’t achievable when a project is live on-site for the first time.

This transformational process of on-going refinement and progress isn’t possible in traditional construction, where every building is bespoke.

It’s yet another benefit of a Platform construction approach, which helps us to achieve greater sustainability in design..http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesWith the ever-present threat of the political environment around them, the main plot is about Tevye, a devout Jew, a milkman, a husband, and a father; and how he navigates his way through community and family life, bringing up five girls in times of cultural change..

He starts from the perspective that there is Tradition.And if we stick by the way we always did things, then all will be well; it is what holds everything together.

But then he, himself points out that once, these traditions were new.As each of his first two daughters, choose their own husbands against the wishes of their parents, he goes through personal moral debate and anguish.