I recently delivered one of my university modules on project management or strategy delivery.

Through a small number of new parts, the building has a whole new lifespan, limiting its embodied carbon when compared with the alternative of a new build.. Building less volume reduces costs, embodied carbon and operational carbon.And with more thought to whole life performance, low carbon, sustainable buildings can keep delivering benefits even after their lifetimes.

Truly a win-win scenario..If you'd like to continue to learn about our Design to Value approach and Modern Methods of Construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesWe’ve talked extensively about the benefits a Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) can bring to a construction project.

Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030. , published in September 2021, the IPA has announced that the Government will mandate a platforms approach within two years for social infrastructure..The benefits of the platforms approach include cost savings, increased safety on-site, better quality, and more sustainable buildings.

So, what does a plausible future look like in practice, if the government and private sector adopt this way of working?

A good illustration of this can be achieved by looking at the lifecycle of a construction project from design to assembly.(LETI) and Bryden Wood.

Bryden Wood’s approach to adaptive reuse uses a clear operational and embodied carbon hierarchy, as shown in the diagrams below.Our sustainable design approach prioritises the reduction of energy demand via a ‘fabric first’ approach, combined with passive and active design measures (‘be lean’).

To reduce operational carbon, we first explore any possibility of reusing buildings that already exist.‘build nothing’) as the main route to reducing embodied carbon.