Many technologies, such as 6-axis industrial robotic arms, have not yet been fully explored, due to:.
Embodied carbon analysis.When reviewing the building against benchmarks for WLC, including the LETI extrapolated targets, the buildings perform well against 2020 targets.
Again, the buildings hit the current GLA benchmark, albeit the façade performance is higher than the GLA expects.However, were this building to be designed now to achieve LETI/RIBA 2030 targets further learnings need to be taken forward..The Forge vs Benchmarks – whole life carbon analysis.
Lessons Learned.Superstructure: The platform system reduces embodied carbon.
Further development can be undertaken to explore reducing whole life carbon further.
Ideas could include:.It's inefficient because you can only put ductwork in certain areas, as people cannot be required to step over it as they move around the space.
Worse, because of the way ductwork is made, the extraction actually takes place about 15cm from the floor, which would allow the cold nitrogen to completely miss the extraction and bleed out into the room..So we designed a trench system, covered with a grille, to surround all the critical areas, and we extract the air from the trench.
Any nitrogen is pulled into the trench by the extraction (we’re extracting the air from the whole space through the trench), but also by gravity because it’s heavier than air.It seems almost obvious, but because it was a groundbreaking MEP design , we did comprehensive testing and modelling to make sure it would work, using computational fluid dynamics (a digital way of predicting how air will move through a building).