In a similar vein we found that only a small part of collaboration is bringing people together.
Prepare a material inventory with opportunities to reuse materials.Prepare a Circular Economy Statement which describes the strategies that the project is going to adopt.
This ensures everyone is working with the same processes in mind and any risks are known and managed from the outset.. Maximise reuse in the built environment.The key sustainable construction principle for reducing the quantity of new materials used in the industry is to build less.This is most easily achieved by reusing existing building stock.
Existing buildings have the potential to be refurbished by retaining existing building elements and improving them to suit future uses..If we have to build new buildings, we must consider how many of the materials can be from reused products, components or buildings.
For example, where there are buildings being demolished on site or locally, materials can be sourced from these buildings, refurbished, and then used in the new building.
Alternatively, a national circular economy should be developed to enable the sharing of good quality reused products..It is rigorous, logical and data-driven.
Its application in construction is transformational.. Design to Value may lead to a solution that is very different to the one initially conceived, but it will be a solution that is fully thought through, appropriate and complete.A built asset that delivers value across the piece.. Iterate in digital.
Our approach is to dismantle a process rigorously until we reduce it to its smallest components.Then we call on a breadth and depth of expertise to optimise every component, so that when we combine them in the complete solution, the whole will operate to the maximum efficiency of all of its parts.. From the earliest stages, we work with 3-D visualisations of processes and physical assets.