How to make an old buildings carbon neutral
Whilst the greenest building is the one that already exists – new builds today are designed to be much more energy efficient than their predecessors, so we would be lying if we said old buildings didn’t come with their own set of challenges.
A successful adaptive reuse project requires an integrated and collaborative approach to design, operations and management with interventions to overcome the shortcomings of the existing building. Also, understanding the embodied carbon impact of design changes helps inform fundamental decisions in relation to the fit-out of the building.
In this report we explore the different methods and techniques that we have applied to projects to make old buildings carbon neutral.