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The concept of using platform-based approaches and standardisation, such as the kit-of-parts system discussed, is highlighted as a way to reduce embodied carbon and simplify the calculation and management of sustainable design elements.

‘You don’t feel claustrophobic at all.’.Goel says that from his perspective it’s all very well organised.

‘The radiology is very close by.Physiotherapy’s really close by.So it’s easy to get hold of people.’.

Of the building’s general layout, Kirsty Cobden comments that usefully, ‘Everything goes round in a circle.There are no dead ends, so you don’t have to go back on yourself.

You just keep going all the way round.’.

Maswiken also remarks on this ease of movement within the hospital.And the changing use of building spaces has been exacerbated by COVID reducing the requirement for office space even further..

In this context, we have converted offices to pilot labs with a high density of fume cupboards and clean room facilities.We have also built an incubator/accelerator project; a lab building for startups.

The principal MEPchallenge here is catering for the air change requirements, which are clearly much higher in a laboratory than in an office.Doing this has been greatly helped by the 3D modelling that was carried out on the original project.. HVAC upgrades at the Portway.