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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #174 Closing the Building Performance Gap
Description: Buildings can use around three times as much energy as design models anticipate. This is an incredible figure and becomes a real problem when considered in context: real estate accounts for 39% of the UK’s total carbon. Around ¾ of that also comes from the operation phase.
Part of the problem lies in the way construction works. Façade managers and mechanical & electrical engineers typically work in silos, while building users might have totally different ideas to even the greatest design visionaries.Â
Solving these problems is tricky, so we found an m&e expert, a facades exper...