To get further though I need to be involved in the leadership of change.
The simplicity of the single-story campus also remains a key challenge for Europe, and, even in the US, this development strategy is being challenged.Multi-story building geometries with associated distribution complexities and more space for plant are having to be envisioned, carrying with them potential impact on CapEx and OpEx envelopes, as well as embodied carbon and carbon in use.
Along with this, speed to market remains high on the agenda and, by default, pre-construction timescales are increasingly coming under pressure..The dream for design standardisation remains alive but is being challenged by rapidly changing technology and service demands.The development of localisation and local code compliance for standardised design is a key USP but a balance must be struck between standardisation, localisation, and the ability to pivot towards rapidly evolving technology and tenant demands.. What are the problems that need to be solved?.
The programme for delivering a new data centre is three to five years.Within this period a great deal of the time is taken in permitting processes and getting power to the site..
Different countries and regions have different regulations and bureaucracies.
One of the reasons why there’s a big focus on projects in the US (other than technology development) is the relative lightness of the permitting and approval process.As we’re able to drive better and better performance through energy efficient equipment and passive design techniques, we can actually start reducing our operational carbon right from the early design stages.
This decrease in operational carbon will continue over time with things like the decarbonisation of the electricity grid.However, the result is that embodied carbon in buildings, due to material usage and the amount of carbon which is integral to the building itself, becomes a larger proportion of the overall carbon emitted from the building across its lifespan.
As such, embodied carbon is increasingly playing a much bigger role in our day-to-day focus on sustainability as architects and designers..Embodied carbon varies based on the building typology.