At Bryden Wood, our team utilises CFD analysis from pre-planning to detailed design stages, leveraging its insights to navigate the dynamic nature of site massing and reconcile technical requirements with local regulations.
The question is: which is the correct level of refurbishment to ensure that the embodied carbon benefit outweighs the reduced operational carbon performance?Light refurbishment, retaining as much of the building as possible?
Or a deeper retrofit, which retains only certain structural elements?.Bryden Wood has carried out an operational and embodied carbon analysis on three different levels of intervention on an existing commercial building:.Light-touch refurbishment, which includes only an upgrade of MEP equipment, windows and ceilings.. A full refurbishment, retaining only structural elements and including MEP upgrade, new façade, finishes and internal partitions.. Full demolition, and construction of a new building..
The calculation consists of a whole life cycle carbon analysis (WLCA) of the three options, including operational and embodied carbon (A-C).The embodied carbon figures used are estimations based on LETI 2020 benchmarks for office buildings, excluding sequestration.
The operational carbon estimates are based on RIBA ‘business as usual’ (light-touch refurbishment), our own assessment of 2020 good practice (full adaptive reuse refurbishment) and RIBA 2030 targets (new construction).
The operational carbon emissions are based on the assumption that at the current rate of decarbonisation, the emissions by 2040 will be 67gCO.Pioneering DfMA:.
We’re experts in manufacturing-led construction for reduced time and risk.We analyse where value in.
can be leveraged based on experience and knowledge of local markets, and often challenge our partners to question what is possible.. Scalability made simple:.Our approach is to dismantle a process rigorously in order to analyse and optimise every single component, and then combine these into a repeatable, scalable solution.