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Or a deeper retrofit, which retains only certain structural elements?.Bryden Wood has carried out an operational and embodied carbon analysis on three different levels of intervention on an existing commercial building:.
Light-touch refurbishment, which includes only an upgrade of MEP equipment, windows and ceilings.. A full refurbishment, retaining only structural elements and including MEP upgrade, new façade, finishes and internal partitions.. Full demolition, and construction of a new building..The calculation consists of a whole life cycle carbon analysis (WLCA) of the three options, including operational and embodied carbon (A-C).The embodied carbon figures used are estimations based on LETI 2020 benchmarks for office buildings, excluding sequestration.
The operational carbon estimates are based on RIBA ‘business as usual’ (light-touch refurbishment), our own assessment of 2020 good practice (full adaptive reuse refurbishment) and RIBA 2030 targets (new construction).The operational carbon emissions are based on the assumption that at the current rate of decarbonisation, the emissions by 2040 will be 67gCO.
/kWh (BEIS 2040), and that by 2050 they will be zero carbon..
The charts below show the total accumulated carbon emissions and the detailed 60-year projection of the three cases.and the author of.
three books on this topic.He is a leading thinker on the future of industrialised construction and is at the forefront of both private and public sector ambitions to adopt manufacturing-led design and construction practices..
He joined Bryden Wood in 1995 and has been instrumental in leading the company’s expansion from disruptive start-up to 300+ people across 9 offices worldwide..He was an original member of the UK Government BIM Task Group and was the co-author of the 'Design for Manufacture + Assembly' overlay to the RIBA Plan of Works.. Jaimie's books on P-DfMA include ‘.
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