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Embodied Carbon Primer.has been written to overcome the knowledge gap in the industry of how to reduce embodied carbon and how we can apply these strategies to our current and future projects.’.

Bryden Wood’s work on Landsec’s Sumner Street office scheme is featured as a case study because it delivers a significant reduction of embodied carbon intensity versus that of a traditional design.This efficiency is made possible by using P-DfMA (Platforms approach to design for manufacture and assembly) to optimise the use of materials whilst minimising the construction programme and limiting construction waste.Cundall, an engineering and sustainability consultancy, has produced an independent comparison of the embodied carbon between the traditional and P-DfMA designs, and found a 19.4%* reduction in embodied carbon per m. 2. in the P-DfMA design, a 36.4% carbon reduction in the substructure and a 20.21% reduction in the superstructure and facade..

The platform approach is cost-effective, available to everyone and will play a vital role in reducing the construction industry’s emissions and moving the industry towards the goal of net zero greenhouse gasses by 2050.. Read our.on our P-DfMA approach.

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here.. *scope includes substructure, superstructure, façade and MEP, which are all the aspects of the building where a Platform approach has been adopted.The terms of the debate, where ‘nuclear’ is used to cover old technology and its associated problems, must be updated.

Rather than frame the debate as either / or, we should be looking objectively at all the potential decarbonisation solutions we have.No technology is entirely problem-free – including renewables – and we must review the benefits of nuclear power carefully, and on the evidence.. One thing we know for sure is that we need to decarbonise, and quickly.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.

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