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More than 2,000 Gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity is operating in the world today, adding roughly 15 billion tons of CO₂ emissions per year.

I used standard factors to adjust the capital cost in a no.halving the scale does not half the cost or time for each unit to be deployed; the capital per unit volume actually increases..

Lining up scale with demand.Finally, I changed the conversion costs for each scale based upon rules of thumb factors.. M. ore batches.more operator interventions, more laboratory tests.

, thus multiplying the variable cost component of conversion cost.. Having set up the fundamentals of the model I needed to run a simulation which allowed each scale to be applied to each of the demand trajectories; setting when.investment decisions would need to be made to ensure product supply did not fall behind the demand..

This gave an investment profile for each scenario.

To do this I needed help from an exper.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.

These hierarchies define the roadmap to achieve good and best practice performance targets defined by bodies such as LETI, RIBA or GLA.An essential part of the hierarchy, and one of the key focuses of Bryden Wood’s design approach is DfMA, which enables substantial embodied carbon reduction and creates synergies to further reduce operational carbon.

The implementation of DfMA combined with energy efficiency measures, specification of low carbon materials and carbon offset measures is the proposed pathway to the delivery of successful net zero carbon buildings.. To learn more about our Design to Value approach to design and construction, sign up for our monthly newsletter here:.http://bit.ly/BWNewsUpdatesFor pretty much forever, on-site or in-situ construction has been the default way of building.