Towards the end of the film, the three protagonists find themselves caught in a plant called the Devil’s Snare.
While it’s positive they all have the same net zero goal, they offer different guidance.RIBA represents architecture and CIBSE represents engineers.
Then there’s the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) and networks like Architects Declare and Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN).The latter are more voluntary organisations, aiming to demystify some of the complexity around net-zero.They’re trying to push things from a legislation perspective.
Legislation is important, because it leads to clear guidance which industry professionals can use in their day-to-day work.LETI have taken it upon themselves to look at embodied carbon in order to put into a single benchmark what the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), RIBA, CIBSE and others are doing.
It’s positive that individual institutions are there to provide very detailed guidance for specific consultants and professionals, but we also need to have an overarching look at where the industry is heading as a whole.. LETI and Design for net zero carbon.
Last year LETI published some of the first documents offering advice on designing for net-zero carbon: The Climate Emergency Design Guide, and The Embodied Carbon Primer.Critically, Reference Design gives teams the ability to assess a site very quickly using a ‘test fit’ process:.
The client brief drives the selection of the appropriate Chips required to build the asset.These can then be arranged on the site according to the engineers’ predefined rules e.g.
proximity of the Chips to one another; which ones can/can’t be stacked, which ones have to be next to each other vs separated etc..This allows an initial solution (or multiple solutions) to be developed, with pre-defined rules assuring compliance.