Putting the net-zero hierarchy into practice: Minimise waste

As the climate emergency and societal, technological, regulatory, and legislative developments are driving unprecedented change in the construction industry, watch selected presentations from the 2022 Designing for the future, now e-conference, highlighting regulatory and business drivers for change, as well as some modern methods of design practices.

Alistair Kean, Andrew Kidd and Lucy Hayes describe how the Lower Thames Crossing project implemented a groundbreaking approach to carbon reduction by making this goal a central part of the procurement and contract management process.

This technical lecture explored innovative permanent design solutions that can be adopted to improve buildability and reduce carbon intensive temporary works within facade retention schemes.