We also had a tantalising glimpse of what car-free cities look like and, better yet, sound and smell like (even if things went back to how they were pretty quickly).. We know it can be done.
I was straight from school..I didn’t fancy A-levels and I didn’t fancy tech college so I went straight into a job and I did day release...
So my first memories of being in construction was entering into a class of forty men and me.As the years have gone on, more women have entered which is really great.Working at Bryden Wood, there are more women within the team at all different levels, which is really great to see.
It’s a great industry to be in.You can be doing anything.
You can be involved in healthcare, you can be involved in humanitarian levels, through to quite heavy engineering for dams and things like that, which can physically change people’s lives.
So it’s a great time to be in it.Design to Value embraces complexity, acknowledging the complementary nature of ‘value drivers’: the financial, aesthetic, socio-environmental and processual.
Rather than breaking down the design process into discrete, rigid steps, Design to Value seeks nuance and the space for innovation in the layers of each project.Keeping a project and all its elements together is, however, complex – but not complicated.
The complexities, interactions and patterns reveal the essence of every project – they tell the stories of where value actually lies.Innovationunlocks a beautiful and creative process which allows for a collision of perspectives and thinking.
(Editor: Slim Grills)