Center for Innovation Webinar - Design to Value: Industrialized Construction

, Bryden Wood as architects and engineers, and the prototyping and fabricating company.

This is delivered through a keen focus on a fabric first approach that seeks to reduce space heating demand which can be met either through useful solar gains, internal gains or via modern, high efficiency and low carbon heating systems..The facade performance in a Passivhaus building goes well beyond current UK Building Regulations, though a combination of highly insulated walls, high-performing windows and by ensuring “thermal bridging” around windows, doors and junctions is reduced to as close to zero as possible.

This contrasts with traditional building construction, where these elements account for upwards of 10% of the building’s heat loss..The design must achieve the following targets to gain Passivhaus certification:.A heating energy demand of < 15 kWh/m²/yr or a maximum required heating power of 10 W/m2.

Avoid overheating or have a cooling system demanding < 15 kWh/m2/yr.Achieve an air tightness of ≤ 0.6 air changes/ hr @ n50.

The building design also needs to achieve low primary energy & renewable demand.

This is a combined target and is based on the energy consumed by building systems and the renewable energy generated by building mounted wind, photovoltaics or solar thermal systems.. For the above reasons, Passivhaus is a suitable standard for clients and developers that seek a well-established, sustainability standard to deliver low energy buildings with the highest construction quality, aspiring to net zero carbon in operation.. Bryden Wood’s 10-step approach to Passivhaus building design and construction.Industrialised ConstructionThe Benefits of Design to Value: To the Environment.

As society’s awareness of its impact on local ecosystems grows to a realisation of the global impacts of climate change and the continued and rapid destruction of habitats, diversity and the planet’s interdependent networks of life, Design to Value offers the opportunity to respond with purpose and adequacy.Although the green agenda has been around for a couple of decades, the response has been piecemeal, discreet; some would say derisory.

The focus on meeting standards or gaining accolades has at best stifled major impact and at worst has lulled the industry and society into the idea that we were making great strides and further action was not necessary..The facts are becoming increasingly clear: putting grass on roofs or achieving a gold plaque changes almost nothing; we need ambitious and holistic solutions at every level..