The review and approval process is simplified dramatically.
LETI have taken it upon themselves to look at embodied carbon in order to put into a single benchmark what the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), RIBA, CIBSE and others are doing.It’s positive that individual institutions are there to provide very detailed guidance for specific consultants and professionals, but we also need to have an overarching look at where the industry is heading as a whole.. LETI and Design for net zero carbon.
Last year LETI published some of the first documents offering advice on designing for net-zero carbon: The Climate Emergency Design Guide, and The Embodied Carbon Primer.A voluntary organisation made up of hundreds of professionals, LETI aims to share and collate knowledge in order to improve the way buildings are designed.Bryden Wood’s Head of Sustainability, Helen Hough, has been leading the embodied carbon workstream for the past year.
There are now six sub-workstreams within it.Each one is looking at different aspects of embodied carbon: the importance of whole-life carbon, benchmarking, the collection of case studies, etc.
The aim is to gather knowledge and offer industry advice.. As part of this effort, some data has been published on the Landsec/Bryden Wood project, the Forge.
This ground-breaking P-DfMA office building project is currently being delivered on-site in London, featuring an almost 20% reduction in embodied carbon.And this will only increase over time.
As the environment changes and technology shifts, more – and more complex – gears emerge.Design to Value seeks to future-proof modes of design to create a more agile space in which accelerated and increased challenges can be adapted to.
With this we can better anticipate and care for future generations and beyond.. To purchase this book, visit.Jaimie Johnston MBE., Head of Global Systems at Bryden Wood, has an engaging conversation with the 'Queen of Prefab', Amy Marks, the Vice President of Enterprise Transformation Practice at Autodesk.
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