This plant binds you tight and the more you struggle the tighter it binds.

Bryden Wood’s Head of Sustainability, Helen Hough, has been leading the embodied carbon workstream for the past year.There are now six sub-workstreams within it.

Each one is looking at different aspects of embodied carbon: the importance of whole-life carbon, benchmarking, the collection of case studies, etc.The aim is to gather knowledge and offer industry advice.. As part of this effort, some data has been published on the Landsec/Bryden Wood project, the Forge.This ground-breaking P-DfMA office building project is currently being delivered on-site in London, featuring an almost 20% reduction in embodied carbon.

It’s a fantastic achievement, and because The Forge is a Platforms construction project, we’ll be able to take what we’ve learned to create further benefits on future projects.. With the Forge, we’ve been able to prototype the project in advance of it going on-site.We’ve been able to look at things like different concrete mixes, relating to the self-compacting nature of the concrete.

Through evaluation of embodied carbon, we’ve been able to offer lower carbon concrete mixes, tested before being transferred.

In this case, Easispace put temperature sensors in the concrete, with mobile phone alerts indicating when the concrete became strong enough to strike the shuttering.Learning from humans – there needs to be a dynamic process, constantly checking back and developing understanding.. Why is this important?

Russell asks you to imagine that you have a robot looking after your children.You give it the clear purpose of keeping the children safe and fed with home cooked food.

All sounds great.The robot goes to the cupboard and fridge and sees that there is no food in the house.