She is also involved in the detail design of the hospital’s rehabilitation expansion of the project, overseeing the design process and the interference with the hospital scheme currently on site.. Martina is also involved in Healthcare projects for the MoJ (as part of the current Prisons Estate Transformation Project), and compliance checks for medical facilities in Europe and Asia.Jami leads the ‘Central Logic’ approach at Bryden Wood, and her work sits at the intersection between Architecture,.
The building’s landmark status comes from the culmination of many years of thinking and development.It delivers a raft of benefits to the built environment and significant reductions in embodied and operational carbon..
Embodied carbon calculations were undertaken by Cundall, on behalf of Landsec.Cundall updated the calculations at every stage of design, from the Business as Usual (BaU) design in 2018, the incorporation of P-DfMA by Bryden Wood in 2019, through to completion in 2023.The BaU scheme was a traditionally designed office building with a steel frame and a concrete slab, a large basement beneath both buildings and gas fired heating system.
In contrast, the built scheme used P-DfMA, worked to minimise the size of the basement and decarbonised the MEP services using heat pumps..The results showed that the upfront carbon (the carbon used on day one to manufacture the materials, transport them to site, and to install them) was reduced by.
between the BaU scheme and the as-built performance of the P-DfMA scheme.
This is a significant improvement which can be attributed to both the use of DfMA and the low carbon specification of materials..Whilst there is no fixed formula to Passivhaus, Bryden Wood proposes the achievement of the above targets via the following 10 steps, which relate both to design decisions and construction specifications for improved sustainability:.
A compact shape with low building envelope to volume ratios.. Building orientation to benefit from useful solar gains.. Optimised window sizes to capitalise on useful solar gains, reduce heat losses and deliver exemplary levels of natural light into the building..Highly insulated walls, floors and roofs.. Site specific shading to mitigate summertime overheating, whilst allowing winter solar heat gains.. High performance triple glazing with thermally bridge- free heads, jams and sills.. A thermal bridge-free building via detailed design of junctions, and clear and easily buildable air seal lines, to deliver the specified air permeability..
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) and low-pressure loss duct systems to minimise heating demand..High-performance air source heat pumps for heating and DHW.. Renewable technology, including building mounted photovoltaics, solar thermal or small-scale generators and consider the use of battery storage for improving payback periods of building mounted renewables..