This is much more effective than a conventional approach where you might produce engineering drawings or documentation and then hand them to a user group who will then take additional time to review and pass comment.
Although future timescales can sometimes feel abstract, 2050 really isn’t far away and our net zero deadline is looming.In fact, half of the emissions in the atmosphere today were emitted in the last thirty years, so we’re going to have to think really expansively on the issue.
One of the greatest challenges we have is finance, because there’s still a lot of prejudice against nuclear power in the finance market.The World Bank, for example, won’t finance nuclear projects.In addition, despite the fact that all of the science repeatedly tells us that nuclear is the lowest carbon, clean energy source available, the European sustainable finance taxonomy has remained in a state of consideration for years about whether nuclear energy actually qualifies as green..
Still, despite the challenges ahead, it’s clear to see that the tide is turning and, of course, urgency related to the climate crisis will only continue to increase.We must be ready to act and put the right strategies into place globally: licensing, siting, public acceptability, supply chain strategies etc.
All of these elements need to be designed and ready to go as soon as the world is ready for them.
The opportunity will soon be here.Offsets used should be publicly disclosed.. An example of design strategies that follow the proposed embodied carbon hierarchy is shown in Figure 5..
Step-by-step hierarchy for net zero embodied carbon.Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).
As identified above, DfMA is an essential part of the strategy to achieve net zero embodied and operational carbon.Bryden Wood’s Platform approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) is a system that delivers efficiencies across the entire construction process by applying the principles of manufacturing.. Bryden Wood have taken the P-DfMA approach for the design of multiple projects, like Landsec’s The Forge office development in London, where we have followed the hierarchies described above..
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