, the UK’s innovation agency, in recognition of its transformational potential, demonstrating the benefits to all constituents of the platforms approach to design and construction.

In fact, half of the emissions in the atmosphere today were emitted in the last thirty years, so we’re going to have to think really expansively on the issue.One of the greatest challenges we have is finance, because there’s still a lot of prejudice against nuclear power in the finance market.

The World Bank, for example, won’t finance nuclear projects.In addition, despite the fact that all of the science repeatedly tells us that nuclear is the lowest carbon, clean energy source available, the European sustainable finance taxonomy has remained in a state of consideration for years about whether nuclear energy actually qualifies as green..Still, despite the challenges ahead, it’s clear to see that the tide is turning and, of course, urgency related to the climate crisis will only continue to increase.

We must be ready to act and put the right strategies into place globally: licensing, siting, public acceptability, supply chain strategies etc.All of these elements need to be designed and ready to go as soon as the world is ready for them.

The opportunity will soon be here.

If we look back at the last twenty years, examining large sectors like retail, ecommerce and entertainment, we see that all of these areas have undergone enormous, fundamental shifts as a result of rapid technological adoption.Reduction in whole life carbon.

This has led to a 22% reduction in embodied carbon compared to the traditional construction approach.The project predicts a 9.5% reduction in capital cost and 13% reduction in programme..

Carbon reduction against baseline.The path to a sustainable future.. With the growing interest in net zero buildings and sustainable construction, Bryden Wood have developed and implemented their own hierarchy to reduce both operational and embodied carbon.