The built environment contributes to around 40% of the UK's total carbon footprint.
Currently, fund managers are focusing more on internal building technology.This results from a desire to achieve a better return on investment, and a focus on short-term impact over long-term benefits.
While this type of technology might seem more exciting in some respects, it isn’t necessarily as truly valuable as the data sets we could be unlocking from construction if we approached things differently and looked at other ways of using construction technology to consistently gather beneficial information from our construction sites.asBuilt’s platform Vault presents a good example of how powerful things become when we can actually visualise what’s happening.. IoT can also be helpful for construction site managers, enabling them to easily track and keep record of information which might ultimately save them time or produce other benefits.Lamont recalls an incident whereby a local council reported a noise complaint early in the morning, thought to be caused by the construction site operating outside of consented hours.
Using triangulated sensor data, the site manager was able to definitively establish that his site was not responsible for the noise, and was further able to offer insight into the actual cause.Moreover, he was also quickly and easily able to provide a report of the problem..
In this particular instance, we see technology reducing stress for a busy site manager, who didn’t have to waste time investigating the issue further.
Here, construction technology enabled people to quickly and easily return to work.Typical operational and embodied carbon breakdown for medium scale residential for a standard building (left) and for an ultra-low energy building.
Passivhaus standard has always been focused on operational energy, and it is only in recent years that the focus has grown to both operational carbon emissions and the embodied carbon within the building..Operational carbon in sustainable building design.
From an operational carbon perspective, Passivhaus’ low energy targets mean the dwellings are likely to achieve very low carbon emissions.As a result, it becomes technically and financially feasible to offset any carbon emission through the use of building mounted, renewable technologies.
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