How Can Value be Reinstated in the Built Environment? Excerpt 2 from 'Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology.'

These advancements, combined with broader societal, political, and economic trends, are projected to double the size of the life science market within the next decade..

We analyse the effect of removing cooling units, to reduce cost and energy usage, and remove excessive, redundant cooling..Architectural features –.

We analyse the effects of altering the hot return ceiling void depths, extent of hot aisle containment, aisle pitches and reducing FFLs.This drives the reduction of the economic and carbon cost of the building and reduce building footprint..Structural Options –.

Various structural options can be considered to minimise material usage and reduce building height, carbon, and cost, whilst not compromising cooling performance.. CFD can provide evidence during the design process to minimise design risk and help optimise data hall designs further.This allows the design to be improved across all disciplines.

Below is an example of a structural study, looking at how structural options affect the air pressures within the data hall.. Pressure Plots from a recent Structural Optimisation CFD Analysis Study.

External CFD Model.Some of the necessary work will be boring, and it will be a grind to make the data interoperable and set the transaction mechanisms.

Aligning standards, cleaning up data and creating transformation will all take a long time.The industry wants a silver bullet, it wants to skip to the end, but there’s some fairly heavy lifting to be done first.

Sharp says we need to get better about taking the quick wins.The sooner we start, the sooner we’ll reach our goal.