Detailed design outputs for manufacturing can be produced automatically.

Ultimately, we’ll have to collate the data together as an industry, but benchmarks will help us learn, and guide us at the design stage..Creating a sustainable future — alignment of standards and guidance.

One of the key challenges we need to address in our quest for a sustainable future, is to align the various forms of guidance and advice coming into the industry from different sources.There are currently a number of different institutions involved, all representing different parties within the built environment.While it’s positive they all have the same net zero goal, they offer different guidance.

RIBA represents architecture and CIBSE represents engineers.Then there’s the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) and networks like Architects Declare and Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN).

The latter are more voluntary organisations, aiming to demystify some of the complexity around net-zero.

They’re trying to push things from a legislation perspective.Chips are created at all levels, from.

Simplest level e.g.single components that can be optimised for material efficiency.

An Assembly e.g.MEP cassettes, which efficiently combine key components and processes.