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The starting point is industry collaboration — a united focus on raising the industry’s understanding, knowledge and skills in relation to sustainable building.

Engaging with the different groups will further enhance the knowledge and often change, modify or clarify the needs.Creating, innovating, and assessing design ideas can only be done within the context of this captured understanding.. What needs to be remembered is that Value is not generated at a single point, there is a value chain.

For instance, a good experience at a restaurant may start with the availability of the menus, ease of booking, adaptability to your needs.Then move on to the welcome, the ambience, the food, the price, and so on.. And in the Value chain there may be clear ambiguities or conflicts that need to be resolved.These can be brought to life by creating a value landscape.

This is a visualisation of the different stakeholders.Take Company A that wants to deliver affordable quality housing as part of a long-term secure investment of funds.

To do this they need to develop a product, get it built by a Developer, and attract people to live in the accommodation, Dwellers.

The designer of the product could develop a very simple value landscape using the Kano model (a product value model) where Threshold Attributes are minimum standards, Performance Attributes are the-more-the-better and Excitement Attributes are just that.The energy efficiencies achieved through different design iterations can be seen in the chart.. After testing in the virtual environment, Photovoltaic (PV) roof panels, and Combined Power and Heat Units (CHP), were identified as the most efficient energy solutions.

CHPs deliver clean, low-carbon thermal and electrical energy, and were carefully sized to match the building’s electricity and hot water usage.In Barnet Copthall, CHP alone reduced carbon emissions by 91.1 tonnes pa; and by 56.7 tonnes pa for Barnet Leisure Centre..

Intelligent air handling.Air handling systems were designed to use as little energy as possible, whilst ensuring a healthy, fresh indoor environment.