The very process of creating such a plan – gathering all the relevant information and data and presenting it back to clients in a structured way – is in itself a highly productive exercise, allowing people to pull back from the detail of day-to-day operations, and take a more holistic view of what they are doing.
Our approach is to separate out these systems and then standardise and optimise them as much as possible..Replacing coal: process.
simplification and standardisation.A standardised, mass-customisable design solution will make it possible to use algorithmic design for key design tasks:.Coal plant viability for refurbishment can be assessed using automatic tools.
Initial concepts can be produced using algorithmic design tools.Detailed design outputs for manufacturing can be produced automatically.
The review and approval process is simplified dramatically.
Safety related and non-safety related systems are separated and simplified.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.