Translating scientific and technological requirements into a lab design and key project and business metrics.. Exploiting the standardisation opportunities across all life science lab projects..
Towards the end of the film, the three protagonists find themselves caught in a plant called the Devil’s Snare.This plant binds you tight and the more you struggle the tighter it binds.
You escape by stopping fighting, doing something different to what feels like the right and obvious thing; and by exposing the plant to light..In my inaugural lecture in the autumn, I suggested that one of our biggest challenges to solve going forward is trying to get free of the tendrils that bind us.Another metaphor is to reduce the viscosity of business.
I don’t know whether you have ever made a non-Newtonian fluid by mixing cornflour with water?As soon as you try to move the fluid its viscosity rises exponentially; in fact, people have walked across swimming pools of the stuff.. For me, both the Devil’s Snare and the cornflour explain one of the key reasons why we fail in doing the great things we are all capable of.
We become wedded to one way of doing them and when we don’t get the results we want, we think we just need to try harder, to struggle more or to do more work.
The results are the opposite to what we expect.. You can see this all around us in the season of festivities.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.