Focus on community and inclusion:.
All of these design features helped to achieve exceptionally low carbon emissions, with both centres achieving A rated energy performance certificates.Barnet Copthall has an Asset Rating of 20 which exceeds the requirements of Part L2a, and delivers CO. 2. emission reductions of over 37% when compared to the target building.
They are good examples of projects that follow the “Be Lean, Be Clean and Be Green” guidelines in the London Plan Energy Hierarchy..Managing condensation.The spaces between heated, humid, pool halls and cooled gyms, or external areas, are particularly challenging.
Condensation can cause staining or mould growth on the building fabric, and saturate insulation layers, degrading their performance.There are also health and safety risks from mould spores or people slipping on surface water.
Working closely with Grahams, MSL and Saunders Boston, Bryden Wood used AnTherm software along with finite difference numerical modelling, building thermal modelling and probabilistic weather data, to assess condensation risk.
As a result, design changes could be made to reduce condensation.. As these two excellent new facilities open their doors, the communities that they serve can feel the benefits of a well-managed indoor climate, and the client can be confident that they have assets that manage energy efficiently.Engineering matters.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.Although not specifically intended to apply to the design of buildings and places, the Social Value Act (Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012) requires those who commission services to consider how wider social, economic, and environmental benefits can be secured, indicating an increased recognition of the importance of social value in the UK.