The Hub is also working with the companies who will actually be onsite, and who understand how these systems work and effectively integrate in order to facilitate delivery of the built environment itself.. Then there are the companies working in areas like MEP and facades.
Gogan notes that the people in these areas are already very exposed to climate impacts, and they’re also much less resilient to them.These countries have a simultaneous demand for both energy growth and decarbonisation, meaning that they’re in very serious need of clean energy solutions..
Considering that the industrialised world has contributed the majority of historical carbon emissions, Gogan points out that it’s really becoming socially unacceptable for us to continue to move so slowly to decarbonise our own economies, giving support to one technology, but not another.This is heightened by the fact that nuclear plants are currently providing about half of Europe’s clean energy, which leads to the obvious question: how can we justify shutting them down and replacing them with coal and gas?.Rising Carbon Emissions.
Alarmingly, despite having spent decades now talking about action for climate, carbon emissions continue to rise year-on-year.In fact, the COVID-19 pandemic was almost undetectable in terms of carbon emissions, with the highest ever emissions growth in 2019/2020.
Although it felt like the world economy stopped in certain ways, it really didn’t.
Construction and manufacturing continued throughout the pandemic, as did the production of steel and concrete.From the use of DfMA factories to supply increasing demands for buildings and infrastructure while making best use of diminishing workforce, to integrating the supply chain, and cutting building costs and carbon footprint, the application of DEM as a powerful form of automation in construction is an exciting proposition for the future of the construction industry.Above - in this video, Architecture Director Steven Tilkin describes Bryden Wood's approach to designing a new type of prison [image MoJ].. An innovative approach from an innovative Ministry.
The cycle of re-offending is a huge cost to the UK economy.A 2016 study of a group of offenders who re-offended within 12 months of release from prison estimated that the total economic and social cost of reoffending was £18.1 billion..
The Prison Estate Transformation Programme (PETP) was a programme of 10,000 ‘new for old’ adult prison places across six sites (plus one new house block) at an estimated value £1.3 billion.The full PETP programme was retired and superseded by a new programme, but, at the time, it provided an opportunity to develop a new type of prison environment using a platform based Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) approach – one whose core purpose was to increase the likelihood of rehabilitation and reduce re-offending rates.
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