BOSTON – Tech-powered global design firm Bryden Wood is strengthening its presence in the United States by opening a new headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, in the coming weeks.
Bryden Wood Board Director Jaimie Johnston MBE, along with Phil Langley, Board Director and Head of Creative Technologies at Bryden Wood, will lead the company’s expansion in the United States.
Equinix, Amazon Web Services, Boldt, Chandos and DPR Construction already work with Bryden Wood on industrial construction projects. The company’s new US headquarters will allow more US customers to take advantage of this market-leading approach.
“This move puts us at the center of an industry that embraces change – where big technology-led customers work in innovative ways and move quickly,” says Jaimie Johnston. “Being a US-registered company, with global teams, will enable us to take a leadership position for our US clients.”
industrial construction
Bryden Wood’s vision for industrial construction combines a platform approach to design and construction, driven by digital components, and delivered using new business models such as integrated project delivery.
Pallets are groups of parts made up of manufactured components. The approach provides standardization at the component level and design freedom at the asset level. Using pallets, technology-rich manufactured components are assembled efficiently and accurately to a site with fewer workers, better conditions, and more safety. Platforms provide more certainty that projects will be delivered on time and within budget; With low carbon and reuse built into the project in the early stages of design.
Bryden Wood works with senior US technology technologists to develop automated design techniques, such as digital onboarding tools, that help global companies determine how, when and where to develop their construction pipelines in a fraction of the time it would traditionally take to assess feasibility. Design authors use genetic algorithms to create thousands of design and engineering solutions for websites around the world.
The company’s approach to data center design and delivery has already brought benefits to data centers across Europe, with significant increases in IT throughput, productivity and speed to market, and reduced carbon, energy consumption and waste.
“Our US customers and general contractors are constantly asking us the same questions – can you develop and drive a batch-of-parts approach with configurable tools? How will this approach reduce time and costs for my asset delivery?” continues Johnston. Customers seek the same benefits from continuous improvement that have allowed other industries to thrive. By developing solutions
that allow appropriate levels of redundancy, without sacrificing design quality, we help them transform their business.”
Clients looking to the future
Bryden Wood works with: The Boldt Company, a leading contractor and expert in lean construction, at a major manufacturing facility in the United States; The chief Canadian originator of Chandos. and Supply Chain Innovator and Digital Platform Builder, KatalystDI.
Bryden Wood is also partnering with TerraPraxis and MIT to “resupply coal.” A major initiative to reduce global carbon emissions by refueling coal-fired power plants with small modular reactors. This is a project with a very urgent timeline, made possible by Bryden Wood’s expertise in robotic design and standard construction.
The use of standardized combinations of manufactured components will create a new and open market and new possibilities for the supply chain. These are already being explored by forward-thinking consultants in the US who connect their clients directly to the supply chain to map out the industrial construction process.
Scalability is where platforms and configurators really show their benefits. The data center, healthcare, energy, and pharmaceutical sectors are all industries with huge potential to improve design and delivery through industrial construction.
Dissatisfaction with the status quo combined with the right business models, a thirst for innovation, and a desire to expand means the US construction sector is poised for a major change.
“Customers want more control over the way they make key decisions about their future assets,” says Phil Langley. “They want to get to market faster, be more productive, and achieve their climate goals. This means developing innovative, proprietary technologies to enable automated design. We develop algorithm design programs for the global data center and transportation sectors that have not been developed anywhere else.”
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