Our work in healthcare has recently culminated in the completion of the Circle Birmingham hospital which delivered a state-of-the-art new facility for 30% less cost than comparable hospitals.. Data analytics is one key reason we can achieve such major cost advantages on projects delivered in this way.
Post-pandemic, we find coal surging to its highest ever level.In the UK we still have two gigawatts of coal in operation, and because the global recovery is an energy intensive process, places like China, Asia and Africa are burning coal to stimulate economic recovery.
Of particular concern is the fact that we're currently expecting to see two terawatts of coal still in operation by mid-century, which would use up the entirety of our remaining carbon budget.The urgency of the situation is heightened by the fact that current energy demand projections are likely incorrect, and don’t account for the vast increase in demand we’ll see as a result of the projected population increase of four billion people.. Coal is contributing not only to electricity generation, but to industrial emissions as well, and unfortunately, the reality is we don’t really know what trajectory we’re on with temperature increase and the climate emergency.The International Energy Agency modelling predicts a 1.8 degree trajectory, but that figure is based on all of the current commitments being met on issues like deforestation, methane emission reductions, and the updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
Realistically though, it’s unlikely all of the commitments will be met..Furthermore, the 1.8 degree figure doesn’t include any meaningful increase in global energy access.
Gogan says she hopes that’s wrong, because there are currently four billion people in the world who lack access to enough electricity, and 850 million people who lack access to any electricity at all.
In fact, the latter figure is expected to increase to three billion people by 2050.Reference Design is of immediate benefit to the current design to construction market; even if built using a traditional process, there will be benefits brought by the optimal design (via optimisation of adjacencies and the standardisation inherent in Reference Design)..
However the greater opportunities lie in its ability to unlock DfMA and industrialised construction; using Reference Design for a programmatic roll out gives Portfolio clients an opportunity to move up the adoption scale at a pace that allows the supply chain to move confidently with them.The first assets may be delivered quite traditionally, but sequential assets can be increasingly industrialised in their delivery:.
Starting to engage key suppliers in the provision of standardised equipment to give certainty of pipeline to the supplier, and certainty of cost and availability to the client.Prefabricating sections or ‘lower order Chips’ (the standardisation process means the lower order Chips are often designed in a way that means they can be prefabricated e.g.
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