This is further evidence of the importance of understanding the purpose of the laboratory equipment being installed early in the lab design process..

Bryden Wood has extensive experience in the design of hospitals, residential buildings and offices, all of which are typologies where design for wellbeing is becoming increasingly important.The following case studies show some of our recent lessons learnt in the design of healthier buildings and the adoption of wellbeing standards..

Healthy architecture and design for wellbeing in healthcare buildings.Bryden Wood designed Circle Reading Hospital and Circle Birmingham Hospital, and collaborates closely with NHS England.Our primary focus in healthcare projects is to adopt the principles of healthy architecture in order to improve the quality of the user experience for patients and staff.

Hospitals are places to heal and recover, and the design of the building is paramount in supporting this.. As part of our recent involvement in healthcare design, we analysed the performance of typical ward layouts in terms of daylight quality and opportunities for views out:.•​ Inboard design: rooms facing the corridor with toilets in the facade.

•​ Outboard design: rooms facing outdoors with toilets adjacent to the corridor.

•​ Nested design: rooms facing outdoors and connected to corridor.Marks reiterates that the shift to industrialised construction is going to take everyone’s involvement.

All of the key players need to recognise their own dissatisfaction and start making changes.. “I don’t just feel the shift,” she says.“I’m holding on some days because I’m getting knocked over from the shift!”.

The thing that will make the biggest difference at the moment, she says, is the productisation - connecting those products upfront in the platform to provide connectivity for designers and makers.. “And I think that's why what you're doing at Bryden Wood is so cool.We need to enable a connected ecosystem and a connected tissue between all these foundational products to really make this work.