Beyond the insightful panels and discussions, Advancing Prefab is also renowned for its vibrant social calendar.
This process of fine tuning the concrete enables it to be kept as low-carbon as possible, optimising it for strength, while still keeping the building process as quick as possible.It’s a good example of the improvements made viable with prototyping, which aren’t achievable when a project is live on-site for the first time.
This transformational process of on-going refinement and progress isn’t possible in traditional construction, where every building is bespoke.It’s yet another benefit of a Platform construction approach, which helps us to achieve greater sustainability in design..Addressing the climate emergency in construction.
Currently contributing 39% of global carbon emissions, there can be no doubt that the construction industry has a serious and urgent role to play in addressing the climate crisis.The starting point is industry collaboration — a united focus on raising the industry’s understanding, knowledge and skills in relation to sustainable building.
We need to be investing in colleges and universities, educating our young people and making sure they get the right training from the outset.
We must have an industry-wide effort, focused on sustainability in design, one where we can all contribute, rather than having a few people in senior positions trying to force the issue.. We need to do more with passive design, whether it be a fully certified, Passivhaus approach, or simply using sustainable design features more generally from the start through to completion: early design stages, technical design, procurement and construction.• open dialogue.
• rapid iteration.• divergent thinking.
• evidence-based design.• innovation and invention.