A standardised, mass-customisable design solution will make it possible to use algorithmic design for key design tasks:.
These metrics generally look at energy rather than carbon.This is partly because we know the electricity grid is going to be decarbonised.
Therefore, using electricity as our primary, or only, source of power on-site means we’ll be tracking alongside the decarbonisation of the grid.That’s well known in the industry; there’s guidance in place and our focus on sustainability in design has meant that we’ve been working towards that for years now..Grid electricity carbon factor.
The electricity grid had a much higher carbon factor a few years ago than it does now.This is due to coal plants, etc.
However, substantial development and investment in recent years by the government and private bodies has reduced the carbon factor of the grid, through the use of renewables, nuclear power stations, and so on.
The National Grid is responsible for working out the carbon factor for the entire grid.Alongside this growth, improvements in IT, staffing challenges, and new ways of working, now mean that remote or flexible working is commonplace.
For life science developers and companies this has created a major opportunity: converting increasingly vacant or cheaper office space into labs – saving time and money.This may appear to be the perfect solution, however there are additional challenges to consider..
Conversion of an existing office tenancy into a new PCR and bloodwork lab.. 1.Space.. Spatial constraints in office buildings can result in unproductive or inflexible lab layouts.. Office to lab conversions will often result in some compromises.