Bryden Wood has a new identity. Director Martin Wood explains what has changed, what has stayed the same, and why a new visual symbol – built from interconnected, overlapping forms – reflects the way the firm has always worked: across disciplines, across sectors, and towards higher impact.

The data centre market has gone through three distinct eras in fifteen years. Now, driven by AI inference and the limits of tier one city infrastructure, a fourth is emerging. Bryden Wood Data Centre Key Account Lead Dries Hagen sits down with Emmanuel Becker, CEO of Mediterra, to examine what it means for design, flexibility, and power.

AI is already accelerating drug discovery. The question nobody has fully answered yet is what that means for manufacturing. Co-founder Martin Wood and Technical Director Adrian La Porta explore the assumptions, the bottlenecks, and the much bigger questions sitting underneath – ahead of Bryden Wood's Accelerate event on AI in drug manufacturing.

The UK housing stock is inefficient, poorly distributed, and increasingly unfit for a climate that is now both cold and hot. Co-founder Martin Wood, Director of Sustainability Pablo Gugel, and co-Head of Sustainability Helen Hough examine what climate resilience in UK housing actually requires – and who is responsible for delivering it.

The UK's 10-year industrial strategy is a genuine attempt at stability and systems thinking. But an industrial strategy is not the same as an industrialisation strategy. Professor John Dyson, Adrian La Porta and Martin Wood examine what it gets right, what it leaves out, and what actually needs to change.

Electrification is the headline story of the energy transition. But iron, steel, cement, chemicals, and aviation are a different problem entirely. Co-founder Martin Wood and Technical Director Adrian La Porta examine the sectors where the obvious solutions don't apply, and what that means for policy, investment, and delivery.

The market for advanced nuclear has been building for years. What's changed is the demand signal. Jaimie Johnston MBE sits down with Jon Guidroz, SVP at Aalo Atomics, to explore why the conditions for modular nuclear deployment may finally be coming together – and what that means for the energy transition.

Ukraine faces a reconstruction challenge unlike any other: vast in scale, urgent in need, and reduced in workforce. Directors Jaimie Johnston MBE and Martin Wood explore what reconstruction by design – rather than by necessity – could look like, and what the construction industry has to offer.

When the lights went out across Spain and Portugal in April 2025, it exposed something the energy debate had been circling for years. Bryden Wood co-founder Martin Wood, Technical Director Adrian La Porta and Professor John Dyson examine what the grid really needs – and why cost alone is the wrong measure.

How is the data centre industry evolving to meet the challenges of AI, sustainability, and energy security? In this episode of Built Environment Matters, Jaimie Johnston MBE speaks with Lincoln Wood, Director of Design at Edged.

Serial hyperscale, co-location, and edge clients are driving a new model for data centre design – one built on digital libraries of configurable, standardised solutions rather than bespoke projects. Jaimie Johnston MBE presented this 40-minute session at Autodesk University 2024, exploring automation, industrialisation, and decarbonisation in data centre delivery.

From building sites in his teens to VP at GSK, Professor John Dyson has spent his career watching purpose get lost in the machinery of delivery. His inaugural lecture at the University of Birmingham is his most expansive argument yet for why that has to change.