She explains that lean construction aims to deliver exactly what the customer wants in the shortest time with minimal waste, though achieving this requires balancing often conflicting objectives.

But how do you get a job in it?Many assume that you need to have a university degree, and that’s a great option, but not the only one.

Taking the apprenticeship route has many benefits.It immediately places you within the workplace where you learn practical skills, whilst engaging in the academic work needed to gain professional qualifications.So a great choice for young people who like to be hands on while they learn.. Apprenticeship progression within Bryden Wood.

Our apprentices are part of a learning culture where all non-chartered staff are supported in gaining their chartership through a CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) training scheme.(In fact, some senior staff members from Bryden Wood sit on the CIBSE Training and Diversity Group, helping to audit CIBSE accredited training schemes at other companies.)

Our commitment to learning means that everyone here has the opportunity to study for qualifications, leading to membership of professional bodies.

And there is a clear pathway for each apprentice, though to Chartered Engineer level.Architects produce one set of information to one set of criteria, submitting it to planners who then need another, and particular, set of information.

From there it goes to the people who might approve the building, or the people constructing the building.In reality, though, all of these people just need slightly different slices of the same information.

If everyone could agree and collect information to the same standards, sharing the same pieces of information upon creation, and when changed, it would unblock the system and lead to significantly greater efficiency..While early BIM slides had a digital thread looping operational data all the way around, in fact there are all sorts of breakpoints.