This approach helps professionals remain agile, develop multiple skills, and have options during economic downturns.
We’re designing to maximise use of the decarbonised grid.The foundation of our approach to sustainability is based on using lean, passive design methods.
It’s only after passive design strategies are considered that we look at efficient equipment selections, renewable technology and low/zero carbon technology.In other words, when we look towards sustainable design, the focus on sustainable architecture must come before the focus on sustainable services..Operational carbon - industry benchmarks.
The second part of the net-zero carbon equation is the operational carbon, for which there are currently fewer benchmarks.These are still in development by the industry.
However, some have been released by LETI, RIBA and others, and there is an effort within the industry to get them aligned.
What we need now is for organisations, clients and engineers to do the calculations to find out what the embodied carbon is within their building designs — both at the design stage and post completion.Merging Manufacturing and Construction The Forge is a key moment in construction..
It is the world’s first major commercial development to be designed and built using a platform approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA).Bryden Wood has developed P-DfMA over many years..
It takes lessons from the manufacturing industry and applies them to construction.It is based on the understanding that comparable built assets share many common characteristics in the dimensions and requirements of their core elements – floor-to-ceiling heights, for example, or how to connect vertical and horizontal structural elements..
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