KELSEY PATERSON, INTERMEDIATE ENGINEER, MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL.
May be its not exactly the same cake, but just as, or even more delicious.The idea of Exquisite Design captures, exactly, this concept.
There are solutions and choices out there that can protect and repair and restore the ecosystem; and deliver fantastic experiences and deliver financial returns.There are ‘ANDs’ the job of everybody is to find them..The design to value approach, at its heart, is based upon the belief that there are many, many ‘ands’.
The range of value drivers from financial, aesthetic, socio-environmental and processual demonstrate the breadth of belief and aspiration.Take the example of the Ministry of Justice prison programme (a case study in our.
with multiple aims of investment cost efficiency, running cost efficiency, while reducing the huge social cost of re-offending which comes with an £18Billion a year price tag to the UK economy.
There was even a proposal to develop the building technology so that inmates could be involved in the programme, building their skills, and making them more employable once released.. And there are technologies being developed now that can produce net carbon negative concrete, this would have offered the Ministry of Justice programme the possibility of a carbon negative prison as well as delivering all the other benefits.. What we also forget is a fact that should motivate us and give us hope.We’re already working hard with concrete manufacturers to find the lowest carbon form of concrete we can possibly use.
We’re talking to steel manufacturers about the types of steel which will be made by electric arc furnaces powered by hydrogen fuel cells.We’re evaluating whether it’s viable to grow enough forests to build buildings using timber.
All of these issues must be addressed now.. Modern construction for the next generation.Finally, there is the question of the workforce itself.
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