Andrew Pearson

At Bryden Wood, we have over 25 years’ experience applying all types of MMC solutions to a huge range of projects.

Designing in flexibility presents lots of interesting challenges.. Master planning and MEP Design for a precious metals refinery.We started working on this precious metals refinery in 2016.

They refine five different types of precious metal.The precious metals are obtained in raw form from many sources, but most come from catalytic converters in car exhausts.The metals, once purified, don’t look like much – a grey powder – but they are hugely expensive..

They take a product like a catalytic converter, and the first process is to smelt it.They start with just 0.3% of valuable metal by volume and after smelting, it's still a very small quantity of metal, but it’s at a size that they can put it in the back of a truck to be taken to the refinery where the valuable metals are extracted.. Their present refinery was built in 1965, and is in need of replacement.

Our first job was to look at all sorts of options about where they might build a new refinery, from the UK to Europe to Asia.

For a number of reasons, the UK was the best option.The more connections we enable, the stronger those connections become and the more benefits arise from them.

A key principle of this project and the thinking within it is actively and consciously to reinvest the positive impact and learnings of the project for the people involved, to create a virtuous cycle of continuous improvement and progress.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesWhat is operational carbon?.

Operational carbon refers to the emissions of a building during its operation.This includes regulated carbon emissions (heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and domestic hot water) and unregulated carbon emissions which include small power and plug-in systems.. What is embodied carbon?.