A standardised cross-section design encloses the various types of reactor technologies while being able to expand to deal with various sizes of capacity that are required.

This is in large part due to the climate emergency and our need to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.However, it’s also due to our simple desire to create the best buildings we can; those which promote health and well-being for occupants, and are comfortable, durable and safe to use.. WELL building standards and passive design.

As in so many other areas of our lives, COVID-19 has created new challenges within the architecture and design space, with clients now regularly requesting COVID-secure design.The idea of designing for COVID is very compatible with sustainable design’s broader focus on health and wellbeing, and ties in nicely with the WELL Building Standard.This American rating system, launched in 2013 and now in the UK, challenges the built environment from a wellness perspective, while the UK’s earlier environmental assessment method, BREEAM, also places some attention on things like thermal comfort and air volumes.

In the case of designing for COVID, the most obvious starting point is to look at the airflow of a building — how it might move through an office floor plate, for example.Here, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) offers us a way to address the challenge using a process based on mathematical modelling..

Passive design measures also form a key part of a sustainable design strategy.

We must consider elements such as building orientation, the optimisation of facades to balance seasonal heat loss and gain, enhancing daylight and using natural or mixed-mode ventilation.The above diagram illustrates how Chip Thinking® helps in understanding project briefs, test fits, future expansion, and standardisation..

Streamlined design and construction.Reference Design.

facilitates industrialised construction, including.platform approaches (P-DfMA).