Bridging Academia and Industry.
Attendees stayed on, clustering into smaller groups and over coffee and lunch continued to build relationships, share ideas and challenges.I was left thinking that this is how transformation happens..
Professor John Dyson spent more than 25 years at GlaxoSmithKline, eventually ending his career as VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Design, where he focussed on developing a long-term strategic approach to asset management..While there, he engaged Bryden Wood and together they developed the Front End Factory, a collaborative endeavour to explore how to turn purpose and strategy into the right projects – which paved the way for Design to Value.He is committed to the betterment of lives through individual and collective endeavours.. As well as his business and pharmaceutical experience, Dyson is Professor of Human Enterprise at the University of Birmingham, focussing on project management, business strategy and collaboration.. Additionally, he is a qualified counsellor with a private practice and looks to bring the understanding of human behaviour into business and projects.. To learn more about our Design to Value philosophy, read Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology by Professor John Dyson, Mark Bryden, Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood.
Available to purchase at.In my last blog, I explored how innovative, value-driven conceptual design can be shepherded through basic / scheme design.I believe that submitting a project to a sausage-machine-design approach at any point will allow much of the value to be lost or worse.
The question is how you can move into detailed design, construction and beyond while firmly keeping hold of that conceptual value..
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD).In some cases this can be relatively simple, while other gasses (e.g.
vaporised liquid nitrogen which is used in cryogenics, or oxygen which is used in bioreactors) can be very problematic – especially on upper-floors or where labs neighbour office tenancies.. 6.Planning.. Planning Permission & other approvals may be required despite ‘office to lab’ Permitted Development rights..
In the UK, offices can be converted into labs without needing Planning Permission since they now fall under the same ‘Use Class.’ This includes facilities used for “research and development of products or processes,” “industrial processes,” or the “provision of medical or health services.”.There are of course caveats, and there may be other Planning or legal conditions to consider or parties to notify.