Debate: Carbon Critical Design
Impact on buildings
Hancock: If you don’t start looking at carbon right
from the earliest concepts, then adding more insulation,
shading or other measures later on is just making up for
missed opportunities earlier on in the project.
Jones: My real interest is how we mainstream sustainable
design so it happens in every project, not just a few
high profile demonstration projects. Some low energy
buildings now have a higher embodied energy than
operating energy over the lifetime of the building. We
need to address this, otherwise we’re using more energy
to create them than we’re saving.
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Can industry respond in time?
O’Riordan: It’s easy to say we haven’t enough time and it isn’t worth
the effort, but I’m an optimist and I believe in the power of the human
spirit. Collectively, we can lift ourselves out of the pickle we’re in,
because together we now realise what we must do. What we need is
the kind of leadership that atkins is providing, so it can set the pace
of change to government.
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