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Scaling our sustainable capabilities

BDP Lab is our employee innovation forum, bringing together formal and informal research and thought leadership to foster a culture of innovation across BDP. As part of this vision, the group runs Innovation Challenges to crowdsource ideas to help evolve our business.

One such challenge, Scaling Sustainability, asked our employees to share their approaches for upskilling our people to scale up BDP's delivery of sustainable solutions. The aim was to encourage people to take an active role in shaping the sustainable future of the practice, and empower them to have their ideas developed as part of our wider sustainability strategy.

Learn more about the challenge and the winning ideas below:

01// THE CLIENT BRIEF BOOK

Architect Julia Munro is in the process of developing a standard BDP document to present to clients to communicate diverse sustainable design approaches and their advantages effectively. This document will serve as a testament to BDP's dedication to sustainable and regenerative design, aiming to empower, encourage, and educate all stakeholders on addressing climate change.

02// Quick reference guides

Developed by Chris Croly, Building Services Engineering Director, this initiative aims to create a set of guidelines that help promote the integration of sustainable techniques from the early stages of design. The goal is to enhance overall awareness and proficiency in sustainability within the practice, fostering a common language and encouraging collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. The document draws from the results of several monitoring and research projects, providing a scientific basis to the guidance offered.

03// WHOLE LIFE CARBON
TOOLKIT & DATABASE

BDP strives to prioritise whole-life carbon impact in our design, however, traditional carbon calculators often only focus on upfront supply chain emissions. This idea, submitted by three junior architects Mir Jetha, Hosea Lau, and Michaela li, is to develop a knowledge database for BDP that uses building material quantities from BIM models to generate a sustainability rating, incorporating whole-life carbon analysis. Developed alongside the 'Collaborative Sustainability & LCA Database', the tool will facilitate benchmarking, assessment, and the reduction of embodied carbon in every BDP project.

04// COLLABORATIVE SUSTAINABILITY
& LCA DATABASE

Cathal Dunne is the Architectural Sustainability Lead in our Dublin studio. His initiative suggests consolidating research efforts through a Centralised LCA Database to enhance early stage design methodologies by providing insights into material impacts. To coincide with this, workshops led by lead designers, and guided by a sustainability champion will be implemented during stages one to three. These workshops aim to efficiently address questions and foster strategic discussions on project specific embodied carbon and operational energy reduction strategies. This idea is being developed in tandem with the Whole-Life Carbon Toolkit team.