We know a lot about operational carbon and how buildings operate.
The podcast delves into future challenges and trends affecting hospital design and construction.It explores demographic changes, advancements in digital health, and the need for adaptable hospital facilities that can accommodate future technological innovations..
Learn more about Bryden Wood’s Design to Value approach to Hospital Design and Construction.For many, Christmas is a time for family films.Over the break, I watched.Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Towards the end of the film, the three protagonists find themselves caught in a plant called the Devil’s Snare.This plant binds you tight and the more you struggle the tighter it binds.
You escape by stopping fighting, doing something different to what feels like the right and obvious thing; and by exposing the plant to light..
In my inaugural lecture in the autumn, I suggested that one of our biggest challenges to solve going forward is trying to get free of the tendrils that bind us.However, one of the biggest benefits Platform construction offers is to give us more control, which ultimately facilitates meaningful embodied carbon savings..
When we look to use sustainable design techniques to reduce embodied carbon in a building, we first seek to reduce the quantity of building materials used.After this, we evaluate the material type.
Although we do look at traditional building materials, like steel and concrete, it’s also important to evaluate how specifications might be changed and adapted for newer product options, such as low-carbon concrete.Future proofing is a consideration, because when new materials and improvements in the industry arise, we want to be able to make best use of them without having to substantially change designs.