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This means that contractors need to get on board as well.Ultimately, we’ll have to collate the data together as an industry, but benchmarks will help us learn, and guide us at the design stage..

Creating a sustainable future — alignment of standards and guidance.One of the key challenges we need to address in our quest for a sustainable future, is to align the various forms of guidance and advice coming into the industry from different sources.There are currently a number of different institutions involved, all representing different parties within the built environment.

While it’s positive they all have the same net zero goal, they offer different guidance.RIBA represents architecture and CIBSE represents engineers.

Then there’s the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) and networks like Architects Declare and Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN).

The latter are more voluntary organisations, aiming to demystify some of the complexity around net-zero.for a healthcare facility the design needs to be flexible to accommodate specific clinical specialisms and the demographics of a particular region..

So how can a Reference Design both standardise a design, yet leave enough flexibility to adapt it to any given brief?.Designing flexible Reference Designs.

In Reference Design, we create a core design of the most common of our clients’ facility type using a process of rationalisation, optimisation and standardisation.At the same time, we attach a planned strategy for increasing or decreasing scale and content and how to flex to suit local conditions e.g.