The Dyson blog: Design to Value and the Environmental Emergency

The biggest and most recurring challenge, however, is usually due to new services needing penetrations or alternative routing due to changes to client laboratory equipment.

This idea is already being challenged by companies who are moving towards operating smaller hubs, strategically located at walking or cycling distance from the areas where staff live, often far from the city centre.. With people having demonstrated they are able to work from home effectively (and sometimes more effectively), offices do not need to be sized to operate constantly at full occupancy.This approach is beneficial for improving sustainability and work-life balance, reduces time spent commuting and lessens corporate carbon emissions from heating, cooling and especially daily commuting, which typically accounts for the highest proportion of a company’s carbon footprint.. Bryden Wood carried out an internal carbon emissions audit, which showed that the adoption of home-working can reduce corporate emissions by 69% compared to working five days a week in the office.

This is mainly due to the reduction in emissions from Scope 3 (commuting)..The price of land, especially in cities like London, has pushed developers to build deeper and taller buildings without much space for green infrastructure.Deep plan buildings do not prioritise design for wellbeing, as they reduce daylight availability and visual connection to the outdoors, and also limit the possibility of opening windows, making them unsuitable for creating healthy indoor environments.

Moving office hubs to the urban periphery, where prices and density are lower, can create an opportunity for healthy architecture, as narrow-plate spaces provide better and healthier environmental conditions.Lower land prices also facilitate the development of open green spaces between buildings, bringing the added benefits of biophilic design.. Lower occupancy densities and the adoption of flexible working hours also mean new spatial requirements; reducing individually assigned spaces, more hot desking and creating flexible office spaces with adaptable layouts.

These adaptations will require innovative HVAC design which can address changes in local environments with suitable sensors and control systems..

Newly adopted habits also affect residential design.There are very different site layouts and different levels of site conditions.

The seismic conditions in particular are very important, as they have a major impact on the design of the safety systems and therefore increase the complexity of the design.Existing power stations also vary in capacity, and the various nuclear reactor technologies are also different from each other..

The strategy for achieving the required level of standardisation is to isolate variability.Six standardised seismic isolation solutions can deal with most of the seismic conditions we will encounter.