According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to meet that limit of 1.5˚C, human-generated CO2 emissions must be cut in half by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.
So it’s easy to get hold of people.’.Of the building’s general layout, Kirsty Cobden comments that usefully, ‘Everything goes round in a circle.
There are no dead ends, so you don’t have to go back on yourself.You just keep going all the way round.’.Maswiken also remarks on this ease of movement within the hospital.
He enjoys the freedom of not having to ‘push things aside’ to walk between areas.The hallways are very spacious, particularly when compared to the ‘narrow corridors’ of other hospitals in which he has worked.
‘For safety reasons,’ he says, ‘I feel very reassured that it’s very safe in terms of evacuation and day-to-day movement.
It’s very good.’.But also, the bigger the pipe loop, the more problems you have with water quality.
We should be installing this new system soon..Converting offices to labs.
This is something else we’re looking at – or designing the mechanical and electrical engineering systems in new office buildings so that they are flexible enough to change usage later.Obviously, there’s a challenge in thinking about ceiling heights and so on, but mostly the complexity is around air exchange.