The considerable increase in focus within the industry on the sustainable design, construction and use of buildings in recent decades suggests there is an appetite and ability to overlay additional value criteria onto the commissioning and appraisal of architectural schemes.
For example, airlines have shown significant interest in the prospect of having clean, drop-in, substitute fuels that are comparable in price and performance to existing fuels.That’s not something which is on offer to them in the current conversation around sustainable fuel..
Likewise, the oil industry and oil producing nations are coming to a point where they’re having to seriously begin thinking about their transition strategies.Even two years ago the oil industry wasn’t under the level of pressure it is now.People all across the world are starting to experience adverse climate impacts, and it’s not just the poorer countries being affected.
The situation is becoming real everywhere, and it’s creating a real appetite for new solutions.. COP 26: the Global South and nuclear energy.When asked about COP26, Gogan says she noticed a couple of major changes at the event this past year, which stood out from previous conferences.
One of the key things she noticed was that representation from the Global South is increasing.
The Global South is composed of poor countries who lack access to energy to help build their economies and infrastructure.In parallel, architecture has become acutely, myopically object-oriented, celebrating the product rather than the process.
In unison, these routes have led the discipline into a service-centered approach, one that seeks to hastily resolve problems rather than solve them holistically, carefully and analytically.. What if we look past the hospital building and see the journeys of a thousand patients, past the factory and reflect on the launch of a lifesaving treatment, past the data centre and muse upon the millions of connected people.. Design to Value explores just that.. Much design practice has reacted to complexity through specialisation to make it feel more ‘manageable’ – fracturing the building process by elevating expertise.Today, rarely does an architect oversee the entire building process, from analysis to aesthetics, engineering to construction.
Yet architects have a unique capacity to critically understand and engage with the myriad stakeholders involved in a design process – and those who will ultimately use building and be affected by its presence.By fracturing the design process, traditional approaches to design and construction make room for ballooned budgets (being over budget is a built-in assumption at this point), rushed decision making, sacrificed ethics and injurious miscommunication and lack of trust.
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