We want the people who invest to continue to invest.
Alongside developing the architectural design to reduce the overall building volume, we should adopt passive design measures, such as considering building orientation, using optimised facades to balance winter heat loss and summer heat gain, enhancing daylight and using natural or mixed mode ventilation.These sustainable building measures will reduce the MEP plant loads so that plant takes less space; reducing the building volume further.
It will also result in reduced energy consumption in use, as well as reducing the capital cost of MEP systems.. To make sure we use the most appropriate passive sustainable design measures, we test them for optimum results using computer simulations.This means we know far more about how a building is due to operate than we ever have before.We can fine tune the building to make it run as efficiently as possible before it is even built, making further energy cost savings..
Sustainable design and build for the circular economy.We shouldn’t stop at lowering embodied and operational carbon when creating low carbon, sustainable buildings.
A building’s impact starts before the building exists and carries on past the end of its useful life, as part of the circular economy.
We can demonstrate that early sustainable impact can have an exponentially positive impact on carbon savings and the creation of our sustainable future.. Second-hand, locally sourced materials can influence design.From there it goes to the people who might approve the building, or the people constructing the building.
In reality, though, all of these people just need slightly different slices of the same information.If everyone could agree and collect information to the same standards, sharing the same pieces of information upon creation, and when changed, it would unblock the system and lead to significantly greater efficiency..
While early BIM slides had a digital thread looping operational data all the way around, in fact there are all sorts of breakpoints.The handover from construction into operation never works particularly effectively, and we never really get that kind of handover into the capital model.