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Interdisciplinary collaboration enhances sustainability.Pablo highlighted the unique advantage at Bryden Wood, where architects, engineers, and sustainability experts work under one roof.
This setup facilitates a more integrated design process, allowing for seamless collaboration and innovation, especially in sustainability efforts.. 2.Role of modern methods of construction in sustainability.The conversation emphasised the critical link between modern methods of construction (MMC), such as Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA), and sustainability.
These approaches can significantly contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of buildings through more efficient designs and the use of sustainable materials.. 3.. Passivhaus as a sustainability benchmark:.Pablo highlighted Passivhaus as a rigorous standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint.
It represents a robust model for achieving extreme energy efficiency and comfort via airtight building envelopes, high-performance windows, and ventilation with heat recovery.. 4.
Importance of early integration of sustainability.Others are designed deliberately with the intention of being ‘iconic’..
In the case of the Forge, its landmark status comes as the culmination of many years of thinking and development, and the first embodied proof point of an approach to design and construction that has the potential to transform construction..In doing so, it delivers a raft of benefits to the built environment and, in particular through significant reductions in embodied and operational carbon, to society more broadly (the construction sector currently accounts for 38% of global carbon emissions)..
The terrace (rendering).The Forge is a development of two nine-storey commercial office buildings, approximately 14,000m2 large, in central London, close to the Tate Modern.