While sticking to proven designs can minimise risks, it can limit innovation and potential optimisation opportunities.

•​ The façades feature full height windows to enhance daylight quality.. •​ A strategically articulated layout improves privacy at the same time as promoting open views out..Better air quality is facilitated via a variety of design for wellness strategies.

•​ The use of a fully electric heating system helps reduce local pollution.. •​ Openable windows and the isolated nature of the development (reduced pollution and noise) enable effective natural ventilation.. •​ Air quality is further improved via existing and new vegetation, green and brown roofs.. •​ Pedestrianised common areas, traffic restrictions and the parking hidden in the undercroft level reduce local vehicle pollution..Better connection to nature and outdoors is prioritised with biophilic design.•​ Retaining existing species and the arrangement of buildings around trees enhance connection to nature.. •​ All apartments have a private outdoor space in the form of exterior decks and balconies.. •​ The design takes advantage of the site’s natural slope to give direct access to all flats, without the need for a lift (healthy lifestyle).. Wellbeing and office buildings.

Before the pandemic, the commercial market in the UK experienced a growing interest in sustainability with intense competition to build best-in-class developments in terms of sustainability, energy efficiency and design for wellbeing credentials.. Bryden Wood is the lead designer of The Forge, an office building in central London, which has been designed to the highest sustainable design and wellbeing standards.The project aims to become Net Zero Carbon in line with the UKGBC Framework definition to Net Zero, achieve BREEAM Excellent and WELL Gold.

As a result of the adoption of strategies in line with WELL, the building will create a truly healthy working environment where the air quality, water, daylight, thermal and acoustic experiences will be of the highest design for wellbeing standards.. As part of the aspiration to design a healthy workspace, the design team has paid special attention to the selection of sustainable materials, looking at sustainability credentials and identifying products which are not detrimental to air quality..

In line with the client’s ambitions to use sustainable materials, building elements have been chosen to avoid products that come from areas of high risk for modern slavery and, where possible, they have been procured locally and specified with responsible sourcing certificates (all permanent timber will be FSC certified).., from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) in 2017.

Off-site manufacture for construction: Building for change., a report from the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee.

The formation of the Construction Innovation Hub in 2018 and its.Defining the Need.