A year ago, I joined BAM as their Building Performance Manager. Over the past year, many people within the business have heard about Post-Occupancy Evaluations and the idea of feeding back lessons learnt from the operational phase of a project, into the next generation of designs. 

With winter having now arrived, the tree planting season has begun! National Tree week is from 25 November to 3 December, and we’ve seen many people from across our business using their two volunteering days to get outside and help plant some trees.

My work experience at BAM has been one of the most enriching and enjoyable experiences I have ever had. The construction industry was not a sector I was particularly looking to work in, but it has turned out to be really valuable. I think working at BAM made me realise that I need to be more open-minded about opportunities I would not necessarily have considered at first. 

BAM has held the third circular economy workshop of the series, focusing on how design impacts product circularity.

Last week we held our second workshop of the series, and while our first workshop introduced the key principles of the circular economy, this most recent one focussed on the importance of material transparency and product information to enable more circular ways of working.