Sustainability, Net Zero Carbon and CFD
Understanding and reducing the environmental impact of any new or operational facility at every stage is key to a project’s success.
Everybody involved in a building’s design and operation has a professional and personal responsibility to continue our journey to Net Zero Carbon (NZC) by 2050. The construction industry is one of the most carbon-intensive sectors in the world. Scitech’s sustainability and building physics team works with the design team to deliver the carbon-neutral buildings of tomorrow.
Scitech’s wealth of experience in the pharmaceutical and life science sectors, allows us to work with our clients to set benchmarks that accurately represent their projects, helping our clients to truly portray the steps they have taken to decarbonise their sites.
Our team’s experience designing net zero-carbon buildings can help our clients work towards even the most ambitious climate goals, achieving net zero-carbon long before the 2050 deadline.
One of the most carbon-intensive parts of a building’s life is before practical completion due to the construction materials manufacture, transportation, and installation. When specifying a building’s fabric and systems, Scitech’s in-house pharmaceutical specialist architects and building services engineers work in collaboration with our sustainability team ensuring that carbon savings are not made at the expense of our client’s operational experience. Our sustainability and building physics team works with our clients from project inception to post-occupation. We can provide sustainability statements, energy statements, energy benchmarking and operational energy assessment CIBSE TM54, sun path analysis, Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA), Net Zero Carbon (NZC) road mapping, water usage analysis, energy audits and decarbonisation strategies for existing sites and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
Our specialist sustainability and building physics team can offer any combination of services, to suit the needs of our clients.
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- Digital twin – A twin of a new building or an existing building in a digital environment. The model is dynamic allowing analysis of the building operation at any point during the year and identify heat recovery and energy saving opportunities.
- Sustainability and Energy Statements – An energy statement is required under UK part L regulation 25A as part of every UK planning application. If your energy statement quantifies your energy savings in an understandable way, it can become a key tool in the approval process.
- Energy benchmarking and Operational Energy Assessments – When building a new facility or doing a major renovation there are several energy assessments required by UK building control, the first will be Part L compliance, EPC may also be needed. With the ‘net zero’ global target by 2050, every major project will need to consider operational energy usage very carefully and detailed energy assessment such as the CIBSE TM54 calculation are becoming essential.
- Whole Life Cycle Carbon Assessment and Net-Zero Carbon Assessment – A whole life cycle carbon assessment shows the true environmental impact of a building. Based on EN 15978, we can analyse every stage of a building’s life from how the construction materials are manufactured to how the building is decommissioned at the end of life.
- Water Usage Analysis – 30% of the UK’s water consumption is from building and their occupants, and it is important to understand the water ‘hot spots’ at the design stage. This allows designers to focus on the key consumers and then clients to understand the water usage reduction available to them.
- Low And Zero Carbon Technologies (LZC) – Our team’s experience designing and installing LZC technologies means we understand how system design must differ from traditional gas or steam systems. Our team’s past successful designs means we will always find the best solution for our client’s projects.
- Sun Path Analysis – A sun path analysis will mimic the sun’s movement over your site at any point in the year, allowing us to precisely analyse the sun’s effect on the building and make passive energy savings.
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – A CFD study gives our clients total peace of mind that particulates are correctly dispersed. CFD can be used to ensure that temperature and humidity are controlled in the process areas.
