Tag: sustainability
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Skanska to use 3,000 slag cement planks in ‘ultra-sustainable’ London project
Skanska is using 3,000 precast slabs made from 50% ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) in its 105 Victoria Street scheme, which the contractor calls “London’s most sustainable office building”. Laing O’Rourke is designing, manufacturing and supplying the precast slabs for Skanska through its pre-assembly concrete manufacturing facility near Worksop, called Explore Manufacturing. Severfield, which is…
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Productizing Housing for Superior Efficiency and Sustainability
This year’s World of Digital Built Environment WDBE summit was an inspiring two-day event in Tallinn and Helsinki. One of the highlights for me at WDBE was BJ Siegel‘s keynote on productized housing design and construction. Solving the housing problem sustainably BJ discussed the innovative approach that his company, Juno, is taking to design and build multi-family sustainable…
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Meet Michelle Xuereb, the AEC Sustainability Innovator
The world faces a climate crisis, and the built environment is key to mitigating and adapting. Michelle Xuereb, the Director of Innovation at BDP Quadrangle, sees innovation as crucial to the transition to sustainable construction, and architects have a vital role in the process. She’s on a mission to build a culture of innovation within…
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Sustainability Through Digitally Informed Decisions
The environmental impact of buildings is expected to increase as the world population continues to grow. Sustainability in construction becomes crucially essential for the future of the planet and its inhabitants. Considering the energy and material resources throughout a building’s life cycle is the key to controlling its environmental impact. Following the Industry 4.0 principles…
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My Top 5 Innovations for Greater Efficiency, Sustainability & Quality
As a construction professional and British citizen, I genuinely could not have been any prouder and humbled to have opened UK Construction Week Virtual last week. 2020 is the year of disruptions, and we are all looking for this “New Normal”, and while this newfound regularity may have opened new opportunities, as we are now…
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Redefining Sustainability Through Future-Proof Real Estate Investments
This WDBE Talks podcast episode is a prelude to the pitchfest, WWF Life EconomisE KIRA-challenge, that takes place on May 19, 2020, in Helsinki and online. It’s a WDBE 2020 Pre-event, in which WWF is partnering with KIRAHub and RAKLI to find cutting-edge solutions that can support institutional investors and real estate owners in future-proofing…
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Scaling up Building Sustainability Assessments with BIM Model Checker Tools
Sustainability of buildings is an essential topic – buildings and construction consume almost half of raw materials and one third of energy in Europe. Therefore, scaling up the building sustainability assessments and making them faster and more reliable is a key challenge. Panu Pasanen (Photo: Bionova) Building sustainability is evaluated with a Life Cycle Assessment…
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How to Evaluate Sustainability Innovations in Construction
I attended a doctoral dissertation defense at Aalto University in Otaniemi on Friday, September 15, 2016. The candidate, Juho-Kusti Kajander, M.Sc. (Econ.), presented his thesis on how construction industry companies can evaluate their sustainability innovations and the economic benefits of innovation investments. Juho-Kusti’s thesis is titled “Evaluation of sustainability innovations in the construction sector.” In his…