Flexibility in modular construction.

It’s wrong to think of designers as glorified technicians who turn project briefs into drawings and specifications that can be handed over to a contractor.The real challenge, and where designers can help their clients best, is to engage with stakeholders and come up with creative solutions that form the basis of the brief for a successful project.

This is true Design to Value and adopting such an approach in conjunction with Modern Methods of Construction is transformational..Engaging with stakeholders to build an initial model of a solution.We start out by discussing with our client in more detail what the fundamental problem is that they are facing.

We need to understand who is affected by it and its solution.This allows us to identify the stakeholders and what they value.

We then determine with our client – and key stakeholders – what the high level aspects are of a solution that would solve this problem.

That might sound a bit trivial, but the point is that the solution is almost never a building by itself.External heat rejection options:.

Chilled water systems are compatible with a range of external heat rejection options, including dry cooling, dry cooling with partial evaporative assist, and full adiabatic cooling.This allows for optimisation based on climate and environmental considerations.. A key factor in maximising the heat rejection system (with chilled water) efficiency is minimising the heat rejection unit approach temperature i.e.

the difference between the external air temperature and the chilled water outlet temperature.Every degree closer results in mechanical cooling being eliminated for potentially hundreds of hours, leading to significant energy savings.