What we’re really aiming for though, is a future state where we’re able to understand and measure and digitise the actual performance of built assets.
Add in the Hub’s work on introducing APQP, and we will get a level of consistency into components, which will deliver a real benefit.We believe having this greater provenance over our components addresses the question of warranties and insurance, and creates a much lower risk profile on a construction project.
What’s more, the idea of pre-prototyping components before we get to site should mean there is very little left to learn.Ultimately, this creates far fewer opportunities for snags and delays.. Reducing risk in construction and attracting investors.Changing the risk profile of construction should unlock investment into the industry.
As things stand, we know from talking to funders that construction is seen as the riskiest investment option by far.Conversely, we know there’s a great deal of interest in financing clean technology, so there’s a lot of money going into an associated industry.
Construction Platform design offers a huge opportunity, because if we could demonstrate a consistent ability to deliver things to price and budget, investors would view construction differently.
As a result, this could see investors flooding towards construction, as they would get a healthy return on their investment.This is reflected in the designs targeting both the Passivhaus Thermal Comfort criterion as well as CIBSE TM 59, which ensures adequate thermal performance.. Resilient and adaptable to different climate conditions: Passivhaus also provides additional resilience by adopting a design based on passive design strategies coupled with technological solutions that can easily be upgraded, refurbished and replaced.
Whilst Passivhaus was originally developed for residential buildings in Germany, the standard and its principles can be adopted in all kinds of building types, locations and climatic scenarios, and respond to the effects of global warming..However, there are four important challenges for the adoption of Passivhaus:.
Increased design cost and complexity: It requires specific detailing of the envelope, high quality of construction and specific performance testing in order to get the building certified..Increased capital cost: The additional construction capital cost can vary from 8% in the most optimistic scenarios (Passivhaus Construction Costs – October 2019) up to 25%..
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