In fact, half of the emissions in the atmosphere today were emitted in the last thirty years, so we’re going to have to think really expansively on the issue.
This has led to a 22% reduction in embodied carbon compared to the traditional construction approach.The project predicts a 9.5% reduction in capital cost and 13% reduction in programme..
Carbon reduction against baseline.The path to a sustainable future.. With the growing interest in net zero buildings and sustainable construction, Bryden Wood have developed and implemented their own hierarchy to reduce both operational and embodied carbon.These hierarchies define the roadmap to achieve good and best practice performance targets defined by bodies such as LETI, RIBA or GLA.
An essential part of the hierarchy, and one of the key focuses of Bryden Wood’s design approach is DfMA, which enables substantial embodied carbon reduction and creates synergies to further reduce operational carbon.The implementation of DfMA combined with energy efficiency measures, specification of low carbon materials and carbon offset measures is the proposed pathway to the delivery of successful net zero carbon buildings.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.
http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesFor pretty much forever, on-site or in-situ construction has been the default way of building.
However with accelerating interest in Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), it sometimes seems that on-site construction is falling out of favour..In other words, it’s already happening.
We just need it to get better.. A formula for change.Regardless of BIM or digital twins, we won’t win if things continue as they are.
We have fundamental problems which need to be addressed.These include the lack of productisation in construction, as well as the lack of knowledge about DfMA principles and practices.. We have drawings moving back and forth across industry silos from architects and engineers to fabricators and beyond in a way that means “we build things, prefabricated or not, that aren't what was originally upfront in the process,” Marks says.. She believes this is where we will see the most change and brings up Gleicher’s Formula for Change (revised by Dannemiller), where dissatisfaction, vision, and steps toward the vision must be greater than resistance.. “I actually think we’ve hit dissatisfaction at this point,” she says, pointing out the various issues across the industry: construction companies unhappy with the money they’re making, designers unhappy with the roles they’re playing, owners dissatisfied with the inconsistency.. And the question that needs answering now is: “what does the future look like?”.