The challenge: exponential demand, high complexity, & lagging supply.

We can identify potential design risks and understand prevalence and impact.At Bryden Wood, our team utilises CFD analysis from pre-planning to detailed design stages, leveraging its insights to navigate the dynamic nature of site massing and reconcile technical requirements with local regulations.

This helps optimise the process and allows architects to test options that may reduce the building footprint and massing..External CFD is also a great tool for site-agnostic design.The same design can be tested across a range of weather conditions and orientations, with the risks and benefits of each highlighted.

This insight at the early design stage is extremely valuable, for example the impact on plant and building layouts can be optimised when considering the prevailing wind direction..It is important to highlight that we don’t only simulate building operation, but also interpret analysis results comprehensively, focusing on the average uplift across all the heat rejection plant, generators and building ventilation intakes rather than solely on the worst-affected equipment.

This approach allows us to engage in dialogue with manufacturers to understand how any uplift will affect the performance of the equipment.. With this information, the amount of energy used for cooling can be minimised, reducing both embodied and operational carbon.. Short Break Scenarios.

Short break scenarios are simulations used to ascertain the behaviour of a data hall during a switch to standby power generation following a failure of mains power, employing transient analysis within Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)..It is worth noting that the potential effects of building refurbishment, in terms of operational carbon, embodied carbon and wellbeing, are specific to the characteristics of the existing building.

The best results are achieved when the refurbishment is planned carefully from a holistic point of view, addressing all the different factors of the retrofit together..Sustainable design: Net Zero Carbon refurbishment.

(LETI) and Bryden Wood.Bryden Wood’s approach to adaptive reuse uses a clear operational and embodied carbon hierarchy, as shown in the diagrams below.