The focus of his work and training lie within the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering department, where he is actively engaged in expanding his knowledge base and skillset.
Sustainable design and build for the circular economy.We shouldn’t stop at lowering embodied and operational carbon when creating low carbon, sustainable buildings.
A building’s impact starts before the building exists and carries on past the end of its useful life, as part of the circular economy.We can demonstrate that early sustainable impact can have an exponentially positive impact on carbon savings and the creation of our sustainable future.. Second-hand, locally sourced materials can influence design.This might be re-using existing raised flooring, using demolition crush material for a piling mat, or re-using existing steel columns.
A pre-demolition audit of an existing building highlights reusable and recyclable materials.Where materials can be reused, these should be considered for reuse on the same or a local site, thereby reducing material miles and facilitating a more sustainable construction process.
Although the circular economy market is in its infancy, by considering material reuse during the earliest design stages we can help build that marketplace.
In time, this market will help to further reduce material costs..The information exists, we just need to find different ways of interpreting between it.. Sharp says that digitising planning is very much a use case of the National Digital Twin programme because people can see the value in it and therefore have the appetite to address it.
She highlights that we’re currently at the very early stages of connecting digital twins and we need to choose projects which will move us forward, picking the low hanging fruit.She cautions that we should be careful not to codify or entrench any particular positions that will be preventative in the future.
We must look at where people are finding problems and identifying common difficulties, and then seek solutions for how we can address them and apply those lessons in other spheres.Planning is an area ripe with value and opportunity, just as geospatial policy is another.
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