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Doing so will help us to deliver the projects of the future and further increase social value in construction..

That’s how we’ll reduce risk, because such fuels won’t require the sequencing of a whole load of investments in order to make the product really work.As with the desired shift to Modern Methods of Construction in the design and construction industry, we need to address the cultural blockers to the change, and lower the barrier to entry so that it becomes both the right thing to do, and an easy thing to do.. We want the transition to cleaner technologies and fuel sources to become an irresistible, straightforward decision for investors, which means making them more profitable, and working with the grain of human behaviour.

In the case of repowering coal power plants, the existing workforce is likely to be very interested in the prospect of another sixty years of highly profitable plant operation, but without the pollution and emissions.Similarly, rather than trying to guilt people into not flying, we need to make the necessary changes so that we can all enjoy guilt-free air travel.Approaching our decarbonisation challenges in this way means we’re more likely to succeed, and we’ll do so faster.

That’s hugely important because we only have 28 years left to achieve this transition globally.. At the moment we’re standing at the cusp of a huge opportunity, with a whole new avenue of potential.Nuclear energy’s ability to make both heat and power means we can really start to dig into these tough to decarbonize sectors: industrial heat, domestic heating, desalination, fuels, and repowering coal.

What a lot of new technologies really need is simply large amounts of clean heat and power.

Once we achieve that, we’ll create a domino effect that unlocks other elements..Conclusion: driving greater sustainability.

Sustainable construction methods and designing for the circular economy are both possible, and essential.Bryden Wood’s long-term commitment to design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) shows how it is entirely possible to design varied and beautiful buildings using standardised, component-based designs that naturally promote reductions in materials, optimisation of components, reductions in embodied and operational carbon, and plan for end of life reuse..

While the building sector is already becoming familiar with certain sustainable design principles, like reducing energy consumption and striving to improve a building’s energy efficiency, these less common, lean design methodologies should also be adopted as key sustainability principles that will help us.combat climate change, cut carbon emissions and reach our net zero targets.