It’s just so beautiful in an urban way.’.
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.‘I’ve worked on a number of different projects since I joined,’ says Hall.‘No two projects have been the same and I have enjoyed working on them all.’.
When asked about the biggest challenge of his apprenticeship so far, Charlie says, ‘Upon joining Bryden Wood, I came straight from school.It was my first full time job and I didn’t know what to expect.’.
That the experience has been a positive one for him is clear.
‘To other people leaving school, I would 100% recommend an apprenticeship.’ he says.By harmonising the standards and requirements, and developing standardised components, they are creating a huge, central body of knowledge.
This library of common solutions will, in turn, mean that on each project, none of the construction design work necessarily needs to be done from scratch.Combining standardisation with the digital design tools that create better-coordinated models and data-rich designs, along with program cost and supply chain data embedded in the model, is powerful.
Add in the Hub’s work on introducing APQP, and we will get a level of consistency into components, which will deliver a real benefit.We believe having this greater provenance over our components addresses the question of warranties and insurance, and creates a much lower risk profile on a construction project.