Plenty for the group to discuss and action when it meets again later this year..

The current opportunity for transformation and progress in construction has arrived at a critical time..Evaluating Risk and Driving Value.

That said, there will be risks going forward and we need to guard against them.We’ve got to try and avoid bad practices -and report them.We can’t focus exclusively on ‘cheap,’ driving a race to the bottom.

The focus must be on broader value.In terms of implementing policy decisions, we need to provide more evidence, more data, more measurement.

It’s vital that we’re able to demonstrate clearly that these new ways of operating will deliver the outcomes we seek.

It’s not enough just to measure cost and time.A modern low carbon building consists of two main parts:.

Low embodied carbon.Low operational carbon..

Between them, there is also an often unspoken common denominator which Bryden Wood have explored.Put simply: if we build less, we emit less carbon.. Low embodied carbon and the future of sustainable design.