The podcast delves into future challenges and trends affecting hospital design and construction.
When we look to use sustainable design techniques to reduce embodied carbon in a building, we first seek to reduce the quantity of building materials used.After this, we evaluate the material type.
Although we do look at traditional building materials, like steel and concrete, it’s also important to evaluate how specifications might be changed and adapted for newer product options, such as low-carbon concrete.Future proofing is a consideration, because when new materials and improvements in the industry arise, we want to be able to make best use of them without having to substantially change designs.We don’t want to have to rearrange all of our architecture, just because there's a new product available.
We can overcome this issue by designing flexible buildings, offering future use suitability to a number of different architectural typologies..The benefits of kit-of-parts architecture.
Another benefit of a Platform construction, kit-of-parts, approach is that it’s very deconstructable.
We don’t need to use hot welding on-site.Dr. Danny Murguia.
from the University of Cambridge showed that Platform II and P-DfMA (Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly) could potentially double programme productivity, reduce embodied carbon by 20%, and achieve a 40% reduction in programme time.These significant improvements demonstrate the potential of the platform approach to revolutionise construction processes, making them faster, more efficient, and environmentally friendly.. 5.
Facilitating a Circular Economy and Repurposing Infrastructure:.Platform II supports the concept of a circular economy in construction.