Women in construction: Bryden Wood celebrate International Women’s Day

This emphasis on the social aspect ensures attendees not only gain knowledge but also foster meaningful connections within the industry.. 5.

We started from the premise that while a great deal of effort was expended by a lot of expert people within both pharmaceutical and engineering companies, and despite the significant sums being spent, capital projects often failed to meet business requirements.And how could we do better in our approach to pharmaceutical facility design?.

We developed a particular set of tools and an approach that over time became what we now refer to as Design to Value.As we have evolved this approach over the years, we’ve extended it to include many more pharmaceutical engineering projects, as well as a wide range of other sectors, from heavy industry to prisons.. Part of our role is to act as pharmaceutical plant design consultants.What we aim to do is make sure that projects are well aligned with business requirements; to define and design future assets that translate a company’s strategic objectives into tangible manufacturing facilities – and provide added value.

The key point here is that we put a great deal of effort into defining the business needs.That is, after all, why we're doing the project.. We also invest effort into constantly assessing how well our design solutions match those needs.

This has often resulted in solutions that require no capital expenditure at all, because we find different ways of meeting the requirements..

The Design to Value approach relies fundamentally on close collaboration between a wider range of experts than is seen in conventional projects, particularly including business functions.Asking questions over and over creates opportunities to move between sectors.

For example, if a firm that knew almost nothing about water infrastructure was asked to build a wastewater treatment plant, their success – the project’s success – would be a matter of abstracting processes, thinking systematically and schematically, and asking questions – not accepting the status quo.The client might say that they would have to dig a large hole in the ground.

When asked why, the client might typically respond, ‘When working with water you always do that’.The answer would likely again be, ‘Well, because that’s what the book says’.