Sustainability in design: the future of net zero building

Diversity and inclusion enrich design.

These numbers do not include the money spent by the industry to treat solvent waste, manage the safety risks, or pay any application of carbon tax.If the market opportunity becomes clear and entry eased, there is an almost unlimited source of non-fossil organic materials from industrial waste streams e.g.

food, drink, paper, fabric and agriculture.There is a huge effort ongoing to find replacement sources for aircraft fuel (SAF).A small amount of this could be diverted to the much more commercially valuable (margin-wise) supply of high purity solvents..

Waste recycling within plants is something many manufacturers are looking to increase.This does not come without quality and technical challenges.

Local recycling, which is directly discouraged by some regulations, can increase batch-to-batch cross contamination.

Recycling can concentrate impurities, an issue that requires monitoring and can drive the need for further processing.Defining the Need.

As a result of the Infrastructure Projects Authority and the National Infrastructure Pipeline, we now have more clarity surrounding the issue of what needs to be delivered, for who, and the timescales.Although that’s been available for some time, the conversations around commonality are a significant shift.

The Construction Innovation Hub’s work last year with the Defining the Need Report looked at the specific pipelines of infrastructure delivery (particularly social infrastructure), and analyzed what specification requirements were already in place, their maturity, and how much common ground existed..The level of significant overlap was surprising.