Efficiency and cost-effectiveness:.

Standardised solutions facilitate efficient operation and maintenance, as well as aiding staff and prisoner wayfinding and navigation.. A developmental process, an evidence-based approach.Bryden Wood had been working with MoJ since 2011, when we helped developed their BIM Implementation Plan.

We went on to join the MoJ’s multi-disciplinary designer framework in 2014 and, before PETP, developed a ‘proof of concept’ for the application of DfMA to the custodial estate..In February 2016, at the beginning of PETP, we conducted research into the aspects of design that can help influence rehabilitative outcomes.The huge stakeholder engagement effort that informed the new prison design was the biggest piece of research ever undertaken by the department into the effectiveness of prison design and building use.

This is a very good example of how evidence underpins our approach to design.. Stakeholders and sources of evidence included:.Serving and former prison governors, staff and prisoners.

Prisoner support groups, including the Prison Advice and Care Trust.

Policy staff and academics from across Europe.Design to Value.

, “each project is unique, but an ethos and approach prevail.You focus on what you want the project to do, how it should best function and who it should serve - rather than a specific material outcome.”.

This may sound obvious but it’s a long way from what often happens.Client briefs by nature tend to be quite detailed and prescriptive, with the designer’s role limited to converting the brief into a good design with deviation from the brief discouraged.