Randy advocates for maintaining concurrent careers or 'side courses' that change every seven years.

They have scenario modelling and are aware of where things could end up in the best case scenario.However, they also look at what’s happened over the last year.

This means we know what’s happening in the UK in terms of energy balance.We can use that data when considering sustainability in our designs to give a very detailed, current understanding of what the electricity grid is, and what that means for buildings.. We can also use their predictions to understand how the grid is going to decarbonise over the next five to ten years.Importantly, the trajectory for that decarbonisation looks healthy.

What it really comes down to is different scenarios, related to levels of investment, and what that will consist of.Decarbonisation of the electricity grid is a very large-scale endeavour.

Massive wind turbines, all the way through to the PV panels on individual homes; all of these elements contribute to the electricity carbon factor and will play an important role in creating a more sustainable future.. Net zero by 2050.

It’s true that not every building is going to be net zero at the moment.In most cases this can be addressed with special storage cabinets, fume cabinets, and good housekeeping.

However, where larger quantities or more dangerous materials are used (e.g.oxygen, or even inert materials like liquid nitrogen) this can be particularly challenging.

Further complications may also arise where labs divide up previously open plan offices with new partitions, corridors, airlocks, pods, or inner rooms – further complicating egress routes.. For office to lab conversions, fire and egress strategies must be reviewed holistically with the whole building in mind.For example, neighbouring tenancies may currently rely on staff crossing through the new lab to reach a second means of escape, which might no longer be possible.