The Challenge aims to speed up the changes paramount to our future success, embracing manufacturing techniques, both in the supply chain and on-site, as well as expanding the use of digital technologies to foster project efficiency, design, feedback and assurance..

The good news is that we’ve already seen this happening more recently, in terms of developing policy responses to the pandemic.Whereas, previously, the government has simply implemented policies, we’re now seeing a more collaborative approach, in the form of The Construction Playbook and Industrial Strategy.

The government is now actively working with industry to make sure new policies can be implemented.It’s thinking about long-term delivery and it recognises the need to be working with industry to achieve that goal..Broadening value outcomes with ‘Build Back Better’.

If we look back over the last decade, 2010 saw a focus on plans to deal with the deficit.A lot of projects were cancelled, including highway schemes and school building programmes.

The aim was fiscal consolidation.

When spending plans came out, much of the narrative was focused on efficiency.Back in 2017, the Mayor of London announced the need for at least 50,000 new homes per year in the capital.

However, since then, only around 40,000 have been built, and only a little over 25% of those are considered ‘affordable.’ The disparity between need and production in residential architecture highlights a broader, but equally critical, issue - the problems and inefficiency of the wider construction industry.At Bryden Wood, we hope our housing design app, PRiSM, will help to form part of the solution.. Our problem as an industry is simple enough to understand; it stretches beyond residential architecture into other social infrastructure sectors as well.

Traditional construction methods simply can’t meet the scale of demand for new built assets.Not in the future.