In a BREEAM NC 2018 assessment, it is possible to achieve up to 7 credits by doing a WLCA, so for developments that aspire to Excellent or Outstanding ratings the analysis of embodied carbon has become very important.
At the moment, they are working on an existing building in Hulme that hasn’t been used in quite a few years.They’ve got to retain part of the facade and completely build a new building inside it.
It needs to have a cafe and offices — it’s a mixed use type building aimed at supporting the community.I do group work with them and help them work out how to incorporate all the M&E services into their building, but also give them a focus on sustainable design.Mostly, it’s trying to get them to think about getting adequate daylight in, which is quite interesting with the facade they’ve got because they have to reuse it, so they don’t have many options to make the windows bigger.
They’ve got to think of a more interesting way of doing it.I’ve given them some homework and this time they are going to be presenting their daylighting to me.
They all have fully glazed facades on the south facing, so it’s trying to get them to think about the fact it’s going to overheat and they have to look at solar shading and passive design measures.
The overarching premise is getting them to think from an architectural perspective about how they can influence the environmental design of the building.We’re seeing a need to kickstart things as a result of COVID, but there’s also been a reset of some of the policy, and time to create policy, which is now coming to fruition..
Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030.The latest policy refresh has been to Transforming Infrastructure Performance.
The first TIP documents came out in 2017 around the suite of Industrial Strategy documents, setting out a vision for how we would start to drive value and deliver our infrastructure.The Construction Playbook then set out key policies and guidance for how public works projects and programmes are assessed, procured and delivered.
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