The MHCLG categorisation of MMC is comprehensive and includes the application of digital tools to drive productivity improvements both on site and in factories.
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.
LETI have taken it upon themselves to look at embodied carbon in order to put into a single benchmark what the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), RIBA, CIBSE and others are doing.This ability to adapt the configuration of a design would be impossible in a design expressed as 100% single components..
The ‘local’ design is then focused on ground conditions, utilities, infrastructure, placemaking, flows of people etc..Figure 2 Example configurations of healthcare Chips.
Read more about our.methodology here.. We introduced this concept to the New Hospitals Programme, developing the initial ‘Hospital 2.0’ solution.
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