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The carbon critical
design question
In the launch edition of Angles, I highlighted the right from the start. How do we measure carbon
importance of asking the right questions, output realistically and in a standardised way?
instead of assuming that we already have all How does this process of design become the
the answers. One of the questions we have norm, so that it happens not only in a few high
been asking ourselves and our sector recently profile demonstration projects, but every time?
is “How can planners, designers and engineers Where does technology fit into the equation?
respond to the challenges of a carbon critical And what about cost? Ultimately, how quickly will
world?” Questions like this prompted Atkins to redefine its our industry shift from providing notional costs for carbon
own approach to the carbon critical economy early in in projects to carbon credit becoming an essential
2008, in the form of Carbon Critical Design. ingredient for all our work, in all our sectors?
Within the industry, solutions are just starting to be put If the right questions are not factored in, then the
forward to address the challenge of climate change, but the assets or the infrastructure we are creating today will
fact is we’re only beginning to ask the right questions. We not be sustainable. If we do not change the design
don’t know enough to solve or mitigate the carbon issues in question, we are embedding a trend that is going to
the products that we design, but we’re beginning the search. make things worse.
We cannot simply design a road, a building or a town, The time has come to move from worthy discussion
then ask key questions about energy use or environmental about climate change to action. Only then will we begin
impact afterwards – and this fact reverberates throughout the to ask the questions that really matter, if we are to ensure
supply chain, right down to raw materials and procurement. that we, as professionals, show leadership in the most
Carbon Critical Design is about asking the right questions complex issue the world faces.
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