How do we increase value and deliver those broader outcomes?
We call this process Chip Thinking®️.It allows us to generate outputs about its performance under different conditions..
This is a powerful picture that allows all stakeholders to understand the problem and come up with creative ideas in a structured way that take into account what others know, while focusing on aspects that matter to achieve a successful solution.Jointly they can then decide what to do next.Do we need better data or knowledge about a certain aspect?
Do we need to model some aspects in more detail?Does the solution need to be completely different?
Have we formulated the problem properly in the first place?
Working with a Design to Value approach enables this type of questioning and flexibility..It delivers a raft of benefits to the built environment and significant reductions in embodied and operational carbon..
Embodied carbon calculations were undertaken by Cundall, on behalf of Landsec.Cundall updated the calculations at every stage of design, from the Business as Usual (BaU) design in 2018, the incorporation of P-DfMA by Bryden Wood in 2019, through to completion in 2023.
The BaU scheme was a traditionally designed office building with a steel frame and a concrete slab, a large basement beneath both buildings and gas fired heating system.In contrast, the built scheme used P-DfMA, worked to minimise the size of the basement and decarbonised the MEP services using heat pumps..