Adding triple glazing instead of double glazing would increase carbon around 6 kgCO2/m2 over its lifetime.
Offset: Any remaining carbon should be offset via recognised carbon offset schemes.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..The Forge.. Its lean design, using a standardised ’kit-of-parts’ and the better control on the specification and procurement of materials has shown the following benefits:.
Reduction of the amount of material used.
Reduction of waste produced during construction.They’re starting to feel dissatisfied with what’s on offer to them with traditional construction and they want something different.. That, says Amy Marks, is how she knows things are going to change..
Serial owners and the power of clients to drive change in construction.The key lies with the big owners.
Marks calls them ‘serial owners,’ because they are large-scale, repeat asset builders.It’s when those big owners start making demands that the shifts occur.