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Although the operational carbon will accumulate overtime, a decarbonised grid will mean that the growth rate will flatten, and after 60 years the embodied carbon will still remain higher than operational carbon, as shown in Figure 2.

Our apprentices are part of a learning culture where all non-chartered staff are supported in gaining their chartership through a CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) training scheme.(In fact, some senior staff members from Bryden Wood sit on the CIBSE Training and Diversity Group, helping to audit CIBSE accredited training schemes at other companies.)

Our commitment to learning means that everyone here has the opportunity to study for qualifications, leading to membership of professional bodies.And there is a clear pathway for each apprentice, though to Chartered Engineer level.It’s to attract young people and develop their talents that, for the last few years, Bryden Wood has been taking on apprentices.

We currently employ apprentices at all levels: including those working towards an HND and university degree.. Our first apprentice, Kane Axten, tells us about his time here.. Why an apprenticeship, not university?.“When I left school, after A Levels, I knew I was interested in the construction industry, but didn't feel university was right for me.

I wanted work experience and an income, not a loan, so I applied for an Advanced Level Digital Delivery Apprenticeship through www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship.”.

What do you do at Bryden Wood?.While we’re very optimised to keep water off the roads, we don’t really understand other aspects, such as whether a drainage ditch should be built to go left or right at a particular junction.

The information exists, we just need to find different ways of interpreting between it.. Sharp says that digitising planning is very much a use case of the National Digital Twin programme because people can see the value in it and therefore have the appetite to address it.She highlights that we’re currently at the very early stages of connecting digital twins and we need to choose projects which will move us forward, picking the low hanging fruit.

She cautions that we should be careful not to codify or entrench any particular positions that will be preventative in the future.We must look at where people are finding problems and identifying common difficulties, and then seek solutions for how we can address them and apply those lessons in other spheres.