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We reduce avoidable travel by designing to adjacencies and linkages wherever they add value – while at the same time understanding the need to keep certain functions, or categories of user, very separate.

Embodied carbon varies based on the building typology.For example, in residential architecture, we might see a ratio of one third embodied carbon to two thirds operational carbon across a building’s lifespan.

On the other hand, with a building like a data centre, where the operational energy of the building is very high, operational carbon will always be a larger portion of the total, whole-life carbon of the building..The good news is that our data is improving all the time, and the industry is gaining momentum around the issue of sustainability with respect to embodied carbon.Within the next couple of years, we’re going to see an amazing increase in knowledge.

Project life cycle assessments (LCA) are becoming standard practice.Five years ago, that simply wasn’t the case for most consultancies.

There’s also a lot more guidance around now, for example, from bodies like the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers (CIBSE)..

Sustainable building materials and platform construction.BSA compliance data, tolerances, load, thermal performance and energy efficiency technical standards, rules around interoperability etc..

Stored in an open access, central location, the digital library is the bedrock of the digitised design to construction process.It also embeds the standardised requirements:.

Standard space types.Critical adjacencies and operational flows.