Offsets used should be publicly disclosed.. An example of specific design strategies that Bryden Wood have adopted follow the proposed operational carbon hierarchy is shown in Figure 5 and is demonstrated with examples below..
‘What I really like is that there’s no segregation.’ he says.It allows people to interact with each other… Anybody can come in and just have that conversation with us.’.
In other words, at Circle Reading, there is the dual benefit of both a sense of community, as well as a sense of peacefulness.Wendy Bonard-Williams says that her favourite area of the hospital is the glass walkway up on the second and third floor.‘It’s in a big figure eight,’ she says.
‘Hardly anyone goes down there and it’s just a complete glass wall so you can see out...see across to the hotel and things like that.’ She talks about the quietness of the space.‘You can literally go up there for five minutes and escape and you won’t see another person… So that’s quite nice,’ she says, laughing.’.
Raj Goel sums up the general mood about Circle’s Reading facility.
‘It’s a great place to work,’ he says.There are now six sub-workstreams within it.
Each one is looking at different aspects of embodied carbon: the importance of whole-life carbon, benchmarking, the collection of case studies, etc.The aim is to gather knowledge and offer industry advice.. As part of this effort, some data has been published on the Landsec/Bryden Wood project, the Forge.
This ground-breaking P-DfMA office building project is currently being delivered on-site in London, featuring an almost 20% reduction in embodied carbon.It’s a fantastic achievement, and because The Forge is a Platforms construction project, we’ll be able to take what we’ve learned to create further benefits on future projects.. With the Forge, we’ve been able to prototype the project in advance of it going on-site.