The model has shown high success rates in North America, suggesting a promising future for its broader application.

I do group work with them and help them work out how to incorporate all the M&E services into their building, but also give them a focus on sustainable design.Mostly, it’s trying to get them to think about getting adequate daylight in, which is quite interesting with the facade they’ve got because they have to reuse it, so they don’t have many options to make the windows bigger.

They’ve got to think of a more interesting way of doing it.I’ve given them some homework and this time they are going to be presenting their daylighting to me.They all have fully glazed facades on the south facing, so it’s trying to get them to think about the fact it’s going to overheat and they have to look at solar shading and passive design measures.

The overarching premise is getting them to think from an architectural perspective about how they can influence the environmental design of the building.If they do it now whilst they’re still at uni, when they get into practice they can apply the principles more easily, which not only makes the M&E teams’ jobs better, but also, ultimately, delivers a better, more efficient, building to their client.. IP: In general, are architects as focused on this area as they could be?.

HH: In general, no.

It’s taught a lot more than it used to be and it’s very much dependent on which university you go to.It won’t take long..

The Supply Chain and SMEs.At Bryden Wood we’re starting to see a real surge of interest from lower tiers of the supply chain, which supports the idea that one major benefit of all of this will be that we'll unlock SMEs in a way that probably hasn't been done before.

In other words, the disintermediation will start to bear significant fruit.While the Tier One role is likely to see the biggest change and will probably face the biggest challenge ahead in terms of evolving their mindsets and positions for the future models, the SMEs might be doing more of what they do, but better and more consistently.