Center for Innovation Webinar - Design to Value: Industrialized Construction
As representatives of those thousands who work in and around laboratories they demonstrated the wealth of talent, skill and energy present in this eco-system.
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The podcast highlights the critical and growing need for energy sources that are not only clean but also dispatchable – meaning they can be turned on or off, or ramped up and down, to meet real-time demand, a key challenge for grid stability in the energy transition.. 2.Innovations in Advanced Nuclear Technology:.The episode unpacks the significant advancements within the advanced nuclear sector, particularly focusing on innovations like enhanced passive safety features and the development of modular reactor designs that offer greater flexibility and scalability for future energy grids.. 3.
The Broader Role of Nuclear in Decarbonisation:.The discussion positions advanced nuclear energy as an essential, large-scale contributor to global decarbonisation efforts, crucial for moving away from fossil fuels and achieving net-zero targets alongside other renewable energy sources.. 4.
Overcoming Perceptions and Market Challenges for New Energy Solutions:.
The conversation touches upon the sector-wide hurdles for emerging energy technologies, including public perception, regulatory frameworks, and market integration, illustrating the complex environment in which innovative solutions like those at Aalo Atomics must operate.. 5.In the early 1980s, the theorist Freer Spreckley first identified the concept that sustainable development could be realised through identifying and balancing environmental and social outcomes against economic benefits.
This ‘triple bottom line’ of sustainability, as it is now known, underpins the corporate policy of organisations around the world.. To enable clarity on the desired outcomes of design, design value can be separated into a series of value types.The ‘triple bottom line’, as identified by Carmona et al., is a sum of environmental, economic, and social values, and is one of the most used methods of grouping value types in governmental strategies, such as HM Treasury’s Green Book (UKGov, 2018) guidance; the means by which the UK government assesses cost benefits in appraisal and evaluation processes..
While there is a growing variety of measures used to assess the environmental impact of projects (such as embodied carbon and operational energy), and economic value is frequently used as the central justification of projects, there is no agreed metric for assessing social value in architecture and in the impact of projects.. Social value in the UK: establishing benefits of good design.The social impact of developments on communities and the way they are designed are gaining traction as key metrics in UK government policy.