This is where his second project, Back-office Planning Service (BoPS), comes in.
One of the core issues we’re trying to tackle with sustainable design revolves around carbon.We know a lot about operational carbon and how buildings operate.
Data helps us to close the performance gap and make sure buildings perform as well as, or even better than, they do in the design stage.As we’re able to drive better and better performance through energy efficient equipment and passive design techniques, we can actually start reducing our operational carbon right from the early design stages.This decrease in operational carbon will continue over time with things like the decarbonisation of the electricity grid.
However, the result is that embodied carbon in buildings, due to material usage and the amount of carbon which is integral to the building itself, becomes a larger proportion of the overall carbon emitted from the building across its lifespan.As such, embodied carbon is increasingly playing a much bigger role in our day-to-day focus on sustainability as architects and designers..
Embodied carbon varies based on the building typology.
For example, in residential architecture, we might see a ratio of one third embodied carbon to two thirds operational carbon across a building’s lifespan.The podcast highlights the significance of using data-driven processes in hospital construction.
Rubel’s insights into Forsight Digital's methodologies demonstrate how data can guide the planning and programming of healthcare facilities, leading to more efficient and effective hospital designs.. 3.Evolving trends in hospital design through evidence-based approach:.
Both Zig Rubel and host.Jaimie Johnston MBE.