Buildings can use around three times as much energy as design models anticipate. This is an incredible figure and becomes a real problem when considered in context: real estate accounts for 39% of the UK’s total carbon. Around ¾ of that also comes from the operation phase.

Part of the problem lies in the way construction works. Façade managers and mechanical & electrical engineers typically work in silos, while building users might have totally different ideas to even the greatest design visionaries. 

Solving these problems is tricky, so we found an m&e expert, a facades expert and a property developer, and recorded this Think Tank in front of a live audience at the Footprint+ event earlier this year.

Host

Ayo Abbas

Guests

Justin Brand, Asset Management Director, Sellar

Michele Sachelli, Technical Director – Facades Support, WSP

Michael Trousdell, Sustainability and Smart Buildings Lead, WSP

Resources

For more information on Footprint+, click here

For a case study on the Paddington Square development, click here 

For WSP’s guide to the office of the future, click here

Partner

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