Suddenly, we’ll be using construction digitalisation all the time, and we’ll start to see platforms emerge which aren’t thinking at the level of the consultant, but are addressing some of the more specific and prevalent construction site issues instead.

The Climate Emergency requires that we pay more attention to the refurbishment and reuse of existing buildings, with a focus on energy and carbon efficiency..The main benefit of the refurbishment of the urban fabric is a substantial saving in embodied carbon, but a new building can benefit from lower carbon emissions in operation.. Bryden Wood has carried out a detailed WLCA analysis of a light-tough refurbishment, full refurbishment and new construction for a commercial building based on benchmark from LETI and RIBA in order to understand which option is less carbon intensive after 60 years.

The results clearly show that.adaptive reuse is more beneficial in both the short and long term..It is important to re-iterate that the climate emergency is happening right now.

We need to focus on solutions that have an immediate positive impact.The adaptive reuse of existing buildings will help us to create a more sustainable future.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.

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The power of collaborative practice.and where there appears to be little impact..

It is also worth saying that the results have not been modelled where there are lower risk profiles than those of bringing new pharmaceutical products to market.. Let me start with a first curve.. M. odelled.a scenario where the revenue value of the new products was very high.

you can see that scale has little relative influence over the NPV at different scales.There is a difference, smaller scale has a lower return and somewhere the scale can be optimised, but changes are relatively small and would suggest that sticking with an installed or familiar scale may make sense, if you are confident that most of your products will be blockbusters..