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Professor John Dyson spent more than 25 years at GlaxoSmithKline, eventually ending his career as VP, Head of Capital Strategy and Design, where he focussed on developing a long-term strategic approach to asset management..

http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesThe idea that achieving a low carbon, sustainable building requires additional spend is very last decade..The wish to meet BREEAM standards used to lead to the design of expensive bolt-ons, like additional photovoltaic panels or biomass, just to get those precious credits.

But the construction industry has changed.Sustainable, low carbon design solutions are being incorporated in the early stages and, as a result, needn’t cost the earth.. It’s important to focus on fully understanding operational and embodied carbon, not on meeting ‘tick box’ credits.A modern low carbon building consists of two main parts:.

Low embodied carbon.Low operational carbon..

Between them, there is also an often unspoken common denominator which Bryden Wood have explored.

Put simply: if we build less, we emit less carbon.. Low embodied carbon and the future of sustainable design.In fact, the COVID-19 pandemic was almost undetectable in terms of carbon emissions, with the highest ever emissions growth in 2019/2020.

Although it felt like the world economy stopped in certain ways, it really didn’t.Construction and manufacturing continued throughout the pandemic, as did the production of steel and concrete.

What this really highlights though, is that while our own personal behaviour does contribute to the climate crisis, it’s actually the much larger macroeconomy that’s driving very large amounts of the emissions..Although the reality of this situation is actually invisible to most people, it’s imperative that we start doing more than we’re currently doing.