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Climate
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As built environment specialists, we make decisions every day that impact the carbon intensity of projects. In this newsletter, we look at how we strive to drive down carbon and play our part in tackling the climate crisis through the adoption of sustainable materials, the implementation of sustainable practices, developing tools and carrying out research that benefits the wider industry and the environment.
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Net Zero Team of the Year
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We ended 2022 on a high, having won the "Net Zero Team of the Year" award at the Construction News Workforce Awards. The award was presented to us for our approach to tackling net zero and our work developing and sharing our open source embodied carbon tool
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EOC ECO2, a carbon data plug-in for Autodesk Revit, which allows users to measure all the embodied carbon within structural framing (or any volumetric element).
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UNESCO
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Our engineers are taking a ‘light touch’ approach to the sensitive upgrades being implemented to the structure and facade of the listed UNESCO headquarters building in Paris, led by Patriarche. As much of the fabric of the existing structure and
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facade as possible will be retained, while bringing the building in line with modern standards and greatly increasing its sustainability while in operation.
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Atlassian Central
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We are providing structural and facade design services for the world’s tallest hybrid timber building in Sydney, Australia. Atlassian Central is targeting a 50 percent reduction in
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embodied carbon and has recently gained full approval and has started on site.
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Meet... Damian Rogan, Facade Director
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Damian, Director of our Facade Engineering team in London, has just celebrated his 10th anniversary of working at Eckersley O’Callaghan. Damian joined us with the aim of building and developing a facade engineering specialism, - which now accounts for 50 percent of our staff and work.
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Find out more about how our facade engineering services has developed over the past decade and how the sector itself has changed in that time.
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Optimising operational efficiency – with Lisa Rammig
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Having recently designed the first Closed Cavity Facade (CCF) in North America – Google’s first Mass Timber building, part of their Sunnyvale campus’ in California, designed by MGA and SERA Architects – Lisa Rammig, Director of our US West
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Coast offices, explains how CCF systems can deliver optimum thermal efficiency within a high-performance building envelope.
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Designing for net zero in Hong Kong
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With the aim of advancing Hong Kong towards a net zero future, the Hong Kong Green Building Council last year launched its 'Advancing Net Zero Ideas' competition. As pioneers in our field with a strong committment to tackling the climate emergency
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- we have taken all our learnings of sustainable material, implementing and embedding circularity, resilience and reduced operational carbon - to contribute our expertise to this challenge.
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IStructE Award Win
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Our work in the transformation of London South Bank University's (LSBU) London Road Building, designed by WilkinsonEyre has won the Award for 'transformative sustainable design through minimal intervention' at the 2022 IStructE Awards. The project involves the redevelopment of the existing four-storey 1970s building.
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The cradle-to-grave embodied carbon related to the builing's substructure and superstructure is just 49kgCO2e/m2 - significantly less than the LETI target for education buildings.
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We've opened in Milan
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We’ve strengthened our presence in Europe with a new office in Milan, Italy, - which will serve the thriving local market and southern Europe. This newest office we will provide the
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full remit of Eckersley O’Callaghan’s services with a focus on sustainable design and the innovative use of materials.
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