The answer is not to try to design the impossible but to help to re-structure the whole value chain..

You’ll also need to look at reducing the quantity of materials and their transportation distances, as well as other similar considerations.. IP: What one piece of advice would you give to an architecture student about how to deliver sustainable design?.HH: Listen to your sustainability team.

They have so much knowledge they will be able to share with you.It’s not just for them to tell you what to do as such, but as an architect you will have the most impact on a building if you try to work as a team.Incorporating passive design in your projects will mean less M&E services will be required, which means you will benefit architecturally from things like higher ceiling height, larger areas needing smaller risers and smaller plant rooms.

All in all, the technical spaces in a building become a lot smaller.This will also mean the capital cost should come down and certainly the running costs will decrease.

Ultimately, you will have a happy client who won’t have to pay as much to run the building every year.With the Circle Reading project, architects Bryden Wood have employed a design ethic powered by both clinical practicality and build efficiency, delivering a hospital not only visually distinctive, but one which utilises insightful, use-driven design and cutting edge manufacturing processes.

It’s a space which continually upends expectations - a structure of steel and concrete, much of which was built offsite..The construction industry will need to find better ways to reach a consensus faster and deliver better outcomes.

Adopting more open source methods, perhaps akin to Wikipedia, could offer a solution.For example, Highways England is currently transforming the.

Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB).into a new form, aiming to set the standard for engineering documents in the digital future.