Bryden Wood opens Boston headquarters

BOSTON – Global design and industrialized construction company Bryden Wood is expanding with a new Boston-based headquarters.

Bryden Wood board director Jaimie Johnston and board director and head of Bryden Wood’s creative technologies division Phil Langley will lead the company’s U.S. expansion. 

“This move puts us at the centre of an industry that embraces change – with large, tech-led clients working in innovative ways and moving quickly. Being a U.S.-registered company, with global teams, will enable us to take a leadership position for our US clients,” Johnston said in a statement.

Bryden Wood’s industrialized construction approach uses a platform for design and construction driven by digital configuration and delivered through models such as Integrated Project Delivery.

Platforms, a Bryden Wood release stated, are kits of parts composed of manufactured components, which “offers standardization at component level and design freedom at asset level.”

“With platforms, manufactured, tech-rich components are assembled highly efficiently and accurately on a site with fewer operatives, working in better conditions, more safely. Platforms offer more certainty that projects will deliver on time and on budget; with reduced carbon and re-use embedded in a project at the earliest stages of design,” the release stated.

Bryden Wood’s approach to data centre design and delivery has delivered benefits to data centres across Europe, the release said, with increases in IT yield, productivity and speed to market along with reductions in carbon, energy consumption and waste.

“We’re consistently being asked the same questions by our U.S. clients and general contractors – can you develop a kit of parts approach, and drive it using configurators? How will this approach reduce the time and costs to deliver my assets?” Johnston added.

“Clients are seeking the same benefits of continual improvement that have allowed other industries to flourish. By developing solutions that allow appropriate levels of repeatability, without sacrificing design quality, we’re helping them transform their businesses.”