Networking and after-show activities.
A voluntary organisation made up of hundreds of professionals, LETI aims to share and collate knowledge in order to improve the way buildings are designed.Bryden Wood’s Head of Sustainability, Helen Hough, has been leading the embodied carbon workstream for the past year.
There are now six sub-workstreams within it.Each one is looking at different aspects of embodied carbon: the importance of whole-life carbon, benchmarking, the collection of case studies, etc.The aim is to gather knowledge and offer industry advice.. As part of this effort, some data has been published on the Landsec/Bryden Wood project, the Forge.
This ground-breaking P-DfMA office building project is currently being delivered on-site in London, featuring an almost 20% reduction in embodied carbon.It’s a fantastic achievement, and because The Forge is a Platforms construction project, we’ll be able to take what we’ve learned to create further benefits on future projects.. With the Forge, we’ve been able to prototype the project in advance of it going on-site.
We’ve been able to look at things like different concrete mixes, relating to the self-compacting nature of the concrete.
Through evaluation of embodied carbon, we’ve been able to offer lower carbon concrete mixes, tested before being transferred.These imaginations of self-thinking machines were interesting, amusing, and at times creepy and threatening.. As AI enters a new realm where there are artificial systems that can make independent decisions, a light has been thrown on as much about the guiding purpose, ethics, and morals of such systems, as the technological capability..
In the Ethics Unit of my Business Module, I present and discuss data presented in Nature 2018.Through global interviews a team sought to discover, in a life-or-death situation, who people would prioritise to save.
Was it the young, the old, the fit, the lawful, humans over animals?The idea was to investigate the embedded moral decisions made by autonomous cars in dangerous situations.