It was suggested that the DC industry could help focus and accelerate development through the creation of an Industry-Brief defining the market.
We reduce avoidable travel by designing to adjacencies and linkages wherever they add value – while at the same time understanding the need to keep certain functions, or categories of user, very separate.We include and consider as many variables as we can to make sure that the hospital will function as well as it can.. We produce detailed functional and support diagrams to guide the process.
When these diagrams are agreed with our client, we create spatial diagrams, detailing all required rooms, their shapes and the relations between them.This allows us to engage more specialist stakeholders, and make sure their requirements for each of the rooms are met.. We describe this approach as designing the hospital from the inside out.But we never lose sight of the architectural response to the brief.
Creating a beautiful space is a value-driver in itself, with a proven link to clinical outcomes.Nothing is in isolation..
Flexibility through standardisation.
In the case of new build projects, our Platforms approach to design and construction will usually inform the concept design.As such, embodied carbon is increasingly playing a much bigger role in our day-to-day focus on sustainability as architects and designers..
Embodied carbon varies based on the building typology.For example, in residential architecture, we might see a ratio of one third embodied carbon to two thirds operational carbon across a building’s lifespan.
On the other hand, with a building like a data centre, where the operational energy of the building is very high, operational carbon will always be a larger portion of the total, whole-life carbon of the building..The good news is that our data is improving all the time, and the industry is gaining momentum around the issue of sustainability with respect to embodied carbon.