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According to the World Green Building Council, buildings are responsible for 39% of global carbon emissions: 28% from energy needed to heat, cool and power them, and 11% from materials and construction. For Adrenaline's Design & Construction team, finding smart ways to reduce our carbon footprint is an important part of how we work. See how smart technologies like Matterport's 3D Modeling helped us reduce the need for travel to locations and avoid harmful greenhouse gas emissions. #EarthDay2024

Good Climate News ???? This short animation showcases how Hydronic Shell Technologies are revolutionizing building retrofits for heating, cooling and overall energy efficiency, which can get quite messy for residents. This design allows buildings to be retrofitted non-invasively, making them more energy-efficient without the disruption of traditional methods. With decarbonization goals on the horizon, technologies like this could soon play a key role in Nova Scotia’s journey toward reducing emissions. #PositiveChange #ClimateOptimism #SustainableCanada #ClimateActionNow #renewableenergy #NovaScotia

Good Climate News ???? This short animation showcases how Hydronic Shell Technologies are revolutionizing building retrofits for heating, cooling and overall energy efficiency, which can get quite messy for residents. This design allows buildings to be retrofitted non-invasively, making them more energy-efficient without the disruption of traditional methods. With decarbonization goals on the horizon, technologies like this could soon play a key role in Nova Scotia’s journey toward reducing emissions. #PositiveChange #ClimateOptimism #SustainableCanada #ClimateActionNow #renewableenergy #NovaScotia

Thrilling dive to design, simplicity with imagination #architecturalDESIGN with some climate responsive ideas #DRAFTphase #DRAFTdesign #simpleCLASSICALdesign

Utilizing natural light and passive solar heating/cooling techniques, buildings can significantly reduce the need for artificial lighting and mechanical climate control. Thoughtful design maximizes natural resources, creating healthier and more productive environments. ?????

Implications of a Changing Climate on Buildings: A Systematic Perspective ???? As we face the challenges of climate change, it's crucial to understand its broad impacts on our built environments. This image provides a systematic and structured view of how climate change can affect our buildings and their occupants. 1. Climate Change Drivers: At the heart of the issue are anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. These affect natural climate factors such as terrestrial and solar conditions, which in turn influence local and global climates. 2. Environmental Effects of Climate Change: - Gradual Changes: Includes rises in average temperatures, shifts in climate patterns and frequencies, all of which impact the environments where our buildings stand. - Extreme Weather Events: Increased frequency and severity of extreme weather like floods and storms challenge the design and resilience of our buildings. 3. Direct Impacts on Buildings: - Shifts in energy usage, e.g., greater need for cooling over heating. - HVAC systems that may no longer be optimal under new conditions, leading to inefficiencies. - Building structures and drainage systems potentially failing to cope with increased rainfall or high winds. 4. Consequences for Occupants and In-Building Processes: - From discomfort to serious health risks such as diseases or injuries due to unsupportive conditions. - Economic impacts including reduced productivity and potential financial losses due to temporary or permanent operational shutdowns. This image not only illustrates the complexity of the interaction between climate and buildings but also underscores the need for adaptation and resilience in future building designs. As architects, engineers, and professionals in the construction industry, we must design with a vision that embraces climate change, not just to mitigate impacts but also to enhance the comfort and safety of occupants. Source : https://lnkd.in/dKJR93Nz #ClimateChange #SustainableBuilding #Architecture #Engineering ????

We have to change the business model so skyscrapers are a rotten investment. Two possible ways: (1) make planning regulation independent of the authority which controls business rates (as building codes are independent), otherwise planners are pressured to allow over-development to raise local authority funds. And (2) polluter pays: so apply a graduated levy based on number of stories, carbon emissions per m2, negative impact on power, transport and water infrastructure. And apply that levy in perpetuity because that is how long the damage lasts. Transfer all of that levy to support pro-social/pro-environmental alternatives. (Section 106 is too weak and far too subjective). If the 600 tower developers would like to find out how to have a net-positive impact on health, equality, environment we, and no doubt Will Arnold would be happy to talk to them! Otherwise they shouldn’t be surprised if they ignore their culpability and find themselves ostracised.

Humans are spending 90% of their lives indoors using building floors and the UN is saying that the planet needs 230bn m2 of NEW floors in the next 30-40 years. That’s about 23m2 per person. So, the NEW 50 million m2 in London mentioned by Will Arnold below are presumably part of that wider trend predicted by the UN? To put things in perspective, last year about 2 million new cars were registered in the UK at about 5.6t of embodied CO2e each, which is 11.2 million tonnes of embodied CO2e just in one year, and cars definitely do not last as long as buildings. So, it’s not just buildings and it's a real conundrum across the board of high-value modern engineering ‘products’ such as high-rise buildings and cars. We all heard a joke that if aircraft were designed by civil structural engineers - there would be no flying due to the excessive weight of aircraft structures. If/when carbon taxes on highly damaging construction materials reach levels of tax on petrol then there will be less consumption of them and more thinking about how to create those NEW 230bn m2 on the planet with much less or no construction materials. However, if lightweight, open-plan, transparent and slender floors really need to be built, they will almost certainly be lively and will need control of their near-resonant vertical vibrations. Instead of increasing the mass and stiffness of the floor, sometimes by as much as 50% to control the tiny but perceptible floor vibration of only a few microns, increasing damping is by far the most effective way of controlling structural resonance. But, increasing damping in floors in particular has not been easy, so it was not used much. Until now. CALMFLOOR by FSD Active Ltd is a world-first and currently only mass-manufactured commercially available product that provides unprecedented levels of additional damping to floor structures that need it. It has its own embodied carbon of only about 500kg CO2e and controls vibration only in floor areas that need controlling which is typically only about 20% of the gross floor area. Hence just a few #CALMFLOOR units could be needed to control, say, a typical 1000m2 commercial floor plate. That comes down to only a few kilograms of CO2e per 1m2 of the floor to control its vibrations. Not a gram of additional construction materials is needed. This is between one and two orders of magnitude less CO2e when compared with a standard beefing up of the floor over all of its 1000m2, which is a typical standard and highly damaging and wasteful solution implemented daily around the world. CALMFLOOR by FSD Active Ltd is an active mass damper that can use renewable energy to generate damping by an electric motor and moving mass. It is the only commercially available floor vibration control technology that can be tried and tested with a flick of a switch after a short setup. Email [email protected] to explore CALMFLOOR by FSD Active Ltd for your low embodied carbon project.

?? More sustainable residential buildings can have reduced operational expenses, better NOI, and ultimately better building value. That is relevant for operational carbon, which is only half of the picture when discussing a building's climate impact. Buildings also have "embodied carbon," which is the emissions associated with the construction materials. Operational carbon is much easier to sell, because it's easier to put a number on. Embodied carbon, like the emissions associated with concrete and steel production,?is hard to measure as an immediate value proposition. The "Reimagining Sustainable Residential Construction" panel at our 2024 Climate Summit featured Brent Landry (AMH), Andrew Staniforth (Assembly OSM), Nikki Pechet (Homebound), and Dylan Emmett (Fifth Wall). #proptech #climate #realestate Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate

Climate-adaptive facades offer exciting sustainability potential, but balancing costs, reliability, and integration challenges is key to unlocking their transformative power in construction. #GreenConstruction #ResponsiveDesign #FutureBuildings