However, the beams and columns can be any length.

Design to Value (DtV) is a core principle at Bryden Wood.It underpins our entire approach to design and construction.

In process engineering, the first thing you’re trying to establish is what the desired outcome is.Design to Value looks at that in two ways:.In the first instance, it considers the notion that every project has a problem statement.

In essence, what problem are we trying to solve?Let’s take the pandemic as an example.

In this situation, the government is trying to allow people to go about their business, enabling the economy to grow.

At the same time, they’re trying to stop the spread of the disease and protect life.It’s a tough thing to do, we all wear our own symbolic robes and masks, those which we hope will keep us safe by hiding our true selves.

The more we can divest of these, the better we can work together.. My thinking took this metaphor a stage further.While we are stripping things down, let’s tear down the importance we place upon the physical.

While there is undoubted value in the aesthetic and power in iconic objects and structures, in the end true value comes from the people within.We can become obsessed by the physical, by the building.