At the other end of the scale, work for a case study was also undertaken on an example development of 50 flats, mapping it against the common themes that run through planning applications.
Creating a sustainable future — alignment of standards and guidance.One of the key challenges we need to address in our quest for a sustainable future, is to align the various forms of guidance and advice coming into the industry from different sources.
There are currently a number of different institutions involved, all representing different parties within the built environment.While it’s positive they all have the same net zero goal, they offer different guidance.RIBA represents architecture and CIBSE represents engineers.
Then there’s the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) and networks like Architects Declare and Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN).The latter are more voluntary organisations, aiming to demystify some of the complexity around net-zero.
They’re trying to push things from a legislation perspective.
Legislation is important, because it leads to clear guidance which industry professionals can use in their day-to-day work.when a Reference Design can be repeated as a fixed design c.f.
MoJ houseblocks.The image below is an example..
The depth and breadth of value achieved is greater, the bigger and more complex the Chip.The more co-dependent elements involved, the more variables and complexity the Chip has to resolve and the wider the implications of the ways in which Chips will optimise the design.