The construction eco-system and the impact on value.

Hall spent the first year of his apprenticeship working at Bryden Wood whilst attending Oakwoods college one day per week, completing his PEO in Engineering.Following this, he advanced to study for a Level 3 BTEC in Engineering.

At the end of the current academic year, he will move into higher education, working towards a part time degree in Building Services Engineering.‘At school, I wasn’t in the mindset that I would go on to university, but there are opportunities to go on to university through an apprenticeship.Since starting work at Bryden Wood my mindset has changed and I think I would like to now move on to higher education.’.

Speaking about what initially drew him to Bryden Wood, Charlie enthuses about both the practical advantages (the company is close to his home) and the career development opportunities provided by this unique practice whose core principles and activities so captured his interest.He was also impressed by the potential for further development.

‘Bryden Wood appealed to me massively,’ says Hall, ‘as a company who are expanding rapidly.’ However the best thing about them, he says, is that they are a multi-discipline company, which ‘allows for the potential of working on a wide range projects.. Hall says the thing he finds most enjoyable about his apprenticeship position is that it enables him to work on ‘live projects’ where he is given the opportunity and responsibility to assist in work going out.

He also enjoys travelling from his St. Albans base, either to Bryden Wood’s London office or to visit projects/buildings he has worked on.As soon as we have a design we like, we can instantly generate a data model.

This information gives us all the bill of materials quantities we’ll need for the project, and from this data set we can also create the BIM models (ie.the BIM model is one ‘view’ of the data set, not the other way round).

What’s more, as we move further into a construction Platforms space, we will increasingly see the data set of a design able to talk directly to the manufacturing marketplace.This means we’ll be able to access instantly both the cost and availability of a project’s components.