We started working on this precious metals refinery in 2016.
The UK has established ambitious targets to reduce carbon by 2050.The UK aspires to reduce total carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, compared to 2020 levels, and become net zero carbon by 2050.
These ambitions, translated to the built environment, can only be achieved via the implementation of measures to reduce operational and embodied carbon of new buildings, upgrading existing buildings, the use of ambitious policies and crucially via a decarbonised grid..The built environment contributes to around 40% of the UK's total carbon footprint.Based on UKGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings “A framework definition", a typical Cat A office’s building embodied carbon, after the first year of use, would be 75% of the total carbon, whilst the operational carbon would be around 25%.
Although the operational carbon will accumulate overtime, a decarbonised grid will mean that the growth rate will flatten, and after 60 years the embodied carbon will still remain higher than operational carbon, as shown in Figure 2.This means that the focus and the priority should shift from operational to embodied carbon during the design..
Embodied and operational carbon increase in a decarbonised grid scenario.
In this context, the request for Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA) has increased notably over the last few years.The platform approach is cost-effective, available to everyone and will play a vital role in reducing the construction industry’s emissions and moving the industry towards the goal of net zero greenhouse gasses by 2050.. Read our.
on our P-DfMA approach.The LETI guides are available to download.
here.. *scope includes substructure, superstructure, façade and MEP, which are all the aspects of the building where a Platform approach has been adopted.FF&E, finishes and external works follow a traditional approach.Two new leisure centres in Barnet have opened to the public with state-of-the-art facilities.