We are now using chips as the basis of generative designs to allow us to automate the design process.
For example, one longstanding client of ours is an industrial plastics manufacturer who is strongly focused on improving their sustainability.For this client, Bryden Wood have designed facilities with excellent environmental performance, introduced green landscaping throughout their site and undertaken studies into the feasibility of achieving Net Zero carbon for the site’s base load energy consumption..
However, none of these initiatives addresses the ‘elephant in the room’: the industrial plastics manufacturing process itself, which is heavily reliant on the carbon-intensive chemical production sector.. Chemical production is set to become ‘the single largest driver of global oil consumption by 2030’ according to a 2019 paper in the.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The chemical industry uses around 28% of all industrial energy and 10% of global final energy.
2. , which shows how vital it is for the industry to change if we are to reduce carbon emissions and help combat climate change..This is a lot to accomplish, but it offers Bryden Wood an opportunity to make great steps towards this goal and lead by example, by promoting methods to reduce emissions in the chemical engineering sector.. We started studying this problem to see if it would be possible to produce plastics more sustainably.
And we have found that existing carbon capture technologies have the potential to change the way industrial plastics are produced.. Industrial Plastic Production: Reducing Carbon Emissions.
As we know, industrial plastics are used in many items we use every day.Our recent work in the UK with Landsec on a modular office building project has demonstrated the following advantages: the automation of processes leading to a 30-50% reduction in the numbers of people onsite, an increase in safety as a result of reduced work at height, lower capital costs with a 25% reduction in materials due to component optimisation, and a 13% improvement in speed.
Already impressive, we expect these metrics will only continue to improve over time.. Design to Value.The starting point, and where we must begin in order to truly maximise the benefits that P-DfMA and MMC make possible, is to rework our core processes (design, procure, construct, operate) around a central, driving principle: process-led design.
In other words, we must begin with the manufacture and assembly process in mind.Innovation doesn’t respect discipline or sector boundaries.