But we’ve seen approaches over the last few months that have stripped away barriers and taken a direct and pragmatic approach to procurement, when speed of delivery is the priority.
‘We all keep an eye on each other.’.‘It’s a bit of a team spirit, really,’ confirms Adam.. Paul Highton is located nearby with other key members of the Circle Team, including the Head of Operations and the Hospital Director.
‘What I really like is that there’s no segregation.’ he says.It allows people to interact with each other… Anybody can come in and just have that conversation with us.’.In other words, at Circle Reading, there is the dual benefit of both a sense of community, as well as a sense of peacefulness.
Wendy Bonard-Williams says that her favourite area of the hospital is the glass walkway up on the second and third floor.‘It’s in a big figure eight,’ she says.
‘Hardly anyone goes down there and it’s just a complete glass wall so you can see out...see across to the hotel and things like that.’ She talks about the quietness of the space.
‘You can literally go up there for five minutes and escape and you won’t see another person… So that’s quite nice,’ she says, laughing.’.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.What we need now is for organisations, clients and engineers to do the calculations to find out what the embodied carbon is within their building designs — both at the design stage and post completion.
We need to be monitoring what is actually going into buildings, compared to what we think should be going in.This means that contractors need to get on board as well.