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The Forge is designed to a zero carbon in use strategy, with a forecast a forecast 19.4% reduction in embodied carbon per square metre, a 36.4% carbon reduction in the substructure and 20.2% in the superstructure and façade.. As well as this, the construction system allows for a greater level of efficiency in the build, fewer materials, and a significant reduction in site operatives required for the superstructure and façade.

The possibility of digitising our built environment clearly holds the potential for a wide array of valuable benefits.Miranda Sharp has been working on a demonstrator project focused on information share between utility providers in order to facilitate better decision making.

She says that sharing data in this way could have a significant impact on our progress towards net zero.Another example is Gavin Stark’s Icebreaker One project, which seeks to improve efficiency in data sharing.One challenge surrounding the issue is that bilateral sharing arrangements can actually create a significant amount of difficulty for other people.

Sharp says that what we really need is something more free-flowing, and adds that we should be nudging the market in the right direction as it develops so that we end up with an optimally connected set of systems..However, we’re also going to need to definitively demonstrate that the sharing of data will lead to capturable benefits, because such benefits are distributed, and until we demonstrate that, people won’t be motivated to take things forward.

We want the people who invest to continue to invest.

Sharp points out that we use a lot of energy to make water, and a lot of water to make energy.Without those things, understanding the process won’t help..

The bottom line with respect to our current situation is that the world isn’t going to become any less uncertain, any time soon.The pandemic has highlighted our ability to make large, successful shifts, and to do so very quickly.

Rather than resisting change out of fear of uncertainty, we should embrace it.Let’s use the uncertainty to fuel a change in our processes and find a better way of doing things.