It explores demographic changes, advancements in digital health, and the need for adaptable hospital facilities that can accommodate future technological innovations..
This means that the building can be dismantled in pieces, which extends the life of components because of the potential for reuse on the next building.Therefore, construction Platforms include an improvement to efficiency and sustainability across multiple buildings, for years to come..
The future of net zero carbon emissions.These days there’s a lot of discussion within the sustainable design space about targets for a future net zero state, and how that relates to both operational energy and embodied carbon.There are numerous benchmarks and targets in place for operational energy.
These include UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) targets for offices, as well as London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) targets for various building typologies.These metrics generally look at energy rather than carbon.
This is partly because we know the electricity grid is going to be decarbonised.
Therefore, using electricity as our primary, or only, source of power on-site means we’ll be tracking alongside the decarbonisation of the grid.The more we can divest of these, the better we can work together.. My thinking took this metaphor a stage further.
While we are stripping things down, let’s tear down the importance we place upon the physical.While there is undoubted value in the aesthetic and power in iconic objects and structures, in the end true value comes from the people within.
We can become obsessed by the physical, by the building.I have observed many times that we have a great tendency to grasp too early for the physicality of buildings - I need a factory, a hospital, a data centre etc - when they are just labels for the human and human-created activities within.