This iteration is a part of ensuring the design is and remains integrated.
Clients can even take a virtual tour to aid their insight, feedback and input.The design and procurement stages that follow can then also be compressed through focusing time and effort only on the bespoke elements of the largely standardised design.
This approach has been enormously powerful for our clients: the ability to rapidly assess the viability of sites has saved months of uncertainty and prevented the inefficiency of wasted work.. Configuring Reference Design.The rule and data-led thinking that defines Chips and how they can fit together in a design e.g.scale, adjacency, proximity etc.
lends itself to the use of Configurators, which can be designed by our.Creative Technologies.
team, to automate the design process..
This isn’t a necessity – many clients have reported that just the process of defining and writing down their own rules processes is valuable, and the manual test fits are already far quicker than bespoke designs..The heat pump may contain refrigerants with high global warming potential and the MVHR unit will require insulated ductwork.
Much of this may be made out of materials with high embodied carbon such as aluminium or blown plastics.This additional material volume becomes additional embodied carbon.. On the other hand, a Passivhaus design tends to be a more compact shape, thus less materials used.
Due to its more efficient envelope performance, a Passivhaus building needs a small heating system, and due to its reduced energy demand, it requires a smaller PV array.These characteristics, when coupled with a focus on procuring low embodied carbon materials and equipment, can deliver objectively low embodied carbon designs, despite the additional material volume.. Based on the above, it can be observed that some of the inherent characteristics of Passivhaus increase embodied carbon whilst others reduce it.