The Dyson blog: Escaping the Devil's Snare: Pioneering sustainable and innovative approaches in construction

Johnston feels that the adoption of a more standardised, foundational approach will act as a springboard, setting up the opportunity to work with more sophisticated industrialised construction techniques like prefab and DfMA.. Amy Marks is fine with the idea of standardisation but thinks things also depend on how performance-based, or prescriptive those standards are.

Once I complete that in 2021, I will study part time for a full degree in building services engineering whilst continuing to work.My aim is to become BIM Lead within M&E.”.

So is it all about computers?.“Technology is really important to what I do for Bryden Wood.They call younger people like me "digital natives", because we've grown up with computers.

In the end though, everything comes back to people.In meetings with contractors, and other partners, I've had to present my solutions, and work with others to implement them within the overall design.

I was really pleased when my manager gave me a data centre project to lead, from the BIM side.”.

So would you recommend apprenticeships?.Looking at the total emissions after 60 years, light refurbishment is the most advantageous adaptive reuse option (26% less carbon than new construction), followed by a full refurbishment (23% better than new construction).

A red dotted line in the graphs below identifies the potential additional embodied carbon reduction from materials due to the decarbonisation of the grid.The quantum of the reduction from the decarbonisation of materials would be highly dependent on where they are produced and the characteristics of the grid in those countries..

The 60-year projection charts clearly show that the new construction option would have a much higher impact on the first year of use, due to the embodied carbon of construction using new materials.Even though the new construction option benefits from a better operational carbon from day one, the decarbonisation of the grid ‘flattens’ the operational carbon emissions in the.