Sustainability is a core focus at Edged, and Lincoln emphasises the importance of designing data centres that minimise environmental impact.
In addition, the basement volume was reduced which minimised the excavation and material usage resulting in a combined 46% improvement compared with the Business as Usual scheme..The P-DfMA approach significantly reduced embodied carbon of the superstructure.
This is due to the reduction in steel weight.Once the concrete mix was taken into account, the use of 40% GGBS and local procurement, and 26% recycled content of steel the savings are circa 60%..The embodied carbon within the façade increased compared with initial projections.
This is partly due to the anodized finish of the aluminium frame curtain walling (this couldn’t be altered due to the extant planning permission) and partly because the façade was manufactured in Poland – a country with both many transport miles and an electricity grid predominantly fuelled by coal..The internal finishes and walls performed well due to the limited quantity of materials used.
The false ceilings were omitted to reduce materials needed, the curtain walling is self finishing to the inside of the external walls, the building is largely open plan reducing the number of internal walls required and finally the raised flooring is reused from an existing building.
The materials specified for the internal wall include recycled materials, reducing their embodied carbon..This is a newly updated edition of our original book on platforms..
The first edition of this book was written by.Jaimie Johnston MBE.
in 2017 to define and inform the thinking around the development of a platforms design (P-DfMA) approach to construction.It focuses on the opportunity, and benefits, of applying the platform design approach to the scale and scope of the UK Government's construction portfolio..