The Forge: The world's first P-DfMA commercial office building opens in London

Creating a beautiful space is a value-driver in itself, with a proven link to clinical outcomes.

We’re designing with the government’s 2050 net-zero carbon objective in mind, and we’re on track to meet that goal.We’re designing to maximise use of the decarbonised grid.

The foundation of our approach to sustainability is based on using lean, passive design methods.It’s only after passive design strategies are considered that we look at efficient equipment selections, renewable technology and low/zero carbon technology.In other words, when we look towards sustainable design, the focus on sustainable architecture must come before the focus on sustainable services..

Operational carbon - industry benchmarks.The second part of the net-zero carbon equation is the operational carbon, for which there are currently fewer benchmarks.

These are still in development by the industry.

However, some have been released by LETI, RIBA and others, and there is an effort within the industry to get them aligned.The video not only highlights the immediate advantages of this method but also ties it to broader themes like design automation and construction platform adoption.Some landmark buildings gain their status retrospectively, as their significance only reveals itself with the benefit of hindsight.

Others are designed deliberately with the intention of being ‘iconic’..In the case of the Forge, its landmark status comes as the culmination of many years of thinking and development, and the first embodied proof point of an approach to design and construction that has the potential to transform construction..

In doing so, it delivers a raft of benefits to the built environment and, in particular through significant reductions in embodied and operational carbon, to society more broadly (the construction sector currently accounts for 38% of global carbon emissions)..The terrace (rendering).