We examine the flows and resources of people through the building, in order to maximise efficiency at every opportunity.
These are evaluated with respect to the passing of time.What will happen year on year, and at the end of a building’s life?.
Embodied carbon in sustainable building design.One of the core issues we’re trying to tackle with sustainable design revolves around carbon.We know a lot about operational carbon and how buildings operate.
Data helps us to close the performance gap and make sure buildings perform as well as, or even better than, they do in the design stage.As we’re able to drive better and better performance through energy efficient equipment and passive design techniques, we can actually start reducing our operational carbon right from the early design stages.
This decrease in operational carbon will continue over time with things like the decarbonisation of the electricity grid.
However, the result is that embodied carbon in buildings, due to material usage and the amount of carbon which is integral to the building itself, becomes a larger proportion of the overall carbon emitted from the building across its lifespan.When reviewing the building against benchmarks for WLC, including the LETI extrapolated targets, the buildings perform well against 2020 targets.
Again, the buildings hit the current GLA benchmark, albeit the façade performance is higher than the GLA expects.However, were this building to be designed now to achieve LETI/RIBA 2030 targets further learnings need to be taken forward..
The Forge vs Benchmarks – whole life carbon analysis.Lessons Learned.
(Editor: Quick Infrared Sensors)