The irony is that in these times and moments we can develop the best ideas, breakthrough arbitrary boundaries and find amazing solutions..
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.Towards the end of the film, the three protagonists find themselves caught in a plant called the Devil’s Snare.
This plant binds you tight and the more you struggle the tighter it binds.You escape by stopping fighting, doing something different to what feels like the right and obvious thing; and by exposing the plant to light..In my inaugural lecture in the autumn, I suggested that one of our biggest challenges to solve going forward is trying to get free of the tendrils that bind us.
Another metaphor is to reduce the viscosity of business.I don’t know whether you have ever made a non-Newtonian fluid by mixing cornflour with water?
As soon as you try to move the fluid its viscosity rises exponentially; in fact, people have walked across swimming pools of the stuff.. For me, both the Devil’s Snare and the cornflour explain one of the key reasons why we fail in doing the great things we are all capable of.
We become wedded to one way of doing them and when we don’t get the results we want, we think we just need to try harder, to struggle more or to do more work.Operational carbon - industry benchmarks.
The second part of the net-zero carbon equation is the operational carbon, for which there are currently fewer benchmarks.These are still in development by the industry.
However, some have been released by LETI, RIBA and others, and there is an effort within the industry to get them aligned.What we need now is for organisations, clients and engineers to do the calculations to find out what the embodied carbon is within their building designs — both at the design stage and post completion.
(Editor: Electric Air Fryers)