Due to the many benefits offered by adaptive reuse architecture, the practice should be embraced as part of the industry’s shift towards more sustainable design.. Over the last few years, the construction industry has focused on the improvement of Building Regulations (including planned changes in Part-L in 2022 and 2025) and the adoption of more ambitious standards and carbon targets for new construction, following initiatives from LETI, RIBA and UKGBC.
‘Everywhere else, I have to take my own box because they don’t have sound,’ he says, ‘so that’s quite nice.’.Maswiken also talks about the benefits of the lighting flexibility, with the ability to dim the lights or increase lumination, which he says provides options depending on the type of surgery being conducted.
‘Particularly if you’re doing laparoscopic work,’ he says, ‘you might need to dim the light a bit to give the surgeon a better view of the images, so in that way it works very well.’ He also speaks about how lucky he feels to have windows in some of the theatres.It’s quite an advantage,’ he says, ‘Because, just imagine, I’ve been in theatres all day and it helps at times, just to be able to reconnect a bit with the outside.’.This theme of bringing a sense of the outside into the internal hospital space is another picked up by multiple staff members.
‘I think for the patients on the ward the nice thing is that all of our bedrooms have their own windows that look out to an internal courtyard,’ says Highton.‘So they all have a natural element to them.
They’re not looking out into an industrial unit or to another wall… The atrium is very large.
It’s open, it’s airy, so that provides light.– ultimately, technology is about people and we want to put design automation into the hands of the many.
The experience is not supposed to be deterministic but reflexive and co-created between people and technology.Each of these threads connects and is informed by other areas of work at Bryden Wood.
Creative Technologies could only thrive in a company with a truly integrated approach..Does Creative Technologies mean Construction Technology?.