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Improving productivity in construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company. Part 2 of 2.

Time: 2025-10-08 22:17:16 Source: Author: Slim Wipes

As a result, this could see investors flooding towards construction, as they would get a healthy return on their investment.

These functional spaces are theoretical zones which have no spatial definition, acting as a visual way of defining a group of processes which are related to one another..Working with users to categorise the laboratory processes into these distinct functional spaces enables us to generate flow diagrams for the process..

Improving productivity in construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company. Part 2 of 2.

Lab design layout: identifying the flows.As with any project, many stakeholders see a lab design layout as the primary early deliverable to determine that progress is being made on the project.It’s important to make it clear to the client team as well as the laboratory design team that the information needed to form the lab design layout is the priority.. Once we have determined the functional spaces within the lab, for example materials, people, and waste, we can arrange them into flow diagrams to create adjacencies between the different spaces of the lab, allowing us to create a rudimentary layout.

Improving productivity in construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company. Part 2 of 2.

The aim is to reduce movement between the spaces to make the laboratory design layout more efficient.. We can then classify the client equipment to fit into each of these functional spaces and undertake the same exercise at a smaller scale to determine the adjacencies between the laboratory equipment..Laying out the client laboratory equipment into a space is the last element of producing a laboratory design layout, once these flows have been established.

Improving productivity in construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with Josh Johnson, Expert - Engineering Construction & Building Materials at McKinsey & Company. Part 2 of 2.

This practice means that, if new laboratory equipment is introduced throughout the design period (as is often the case), it can be categorised into the correct functional space within the flow diagram and inputted into the lab design layout with confidence that there is a design basis for its location..

Client laboratory equipment.Current projections, even those that include vast expansion of renewable energy generation, show that fossil fuels will still make up the majority of world energy use by the middle of this century.

This would result in a failure to adequately decarbonise, and put us on course for a high-risk 4˚C outcome, which could lead to substantial areas of the planet becoming uninhabitable.According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to meet that limit of 1.5˚C, human-generated CO2 emissions must be cut in half by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

Decarbonising is essential..If our objective is to replace enough dirty energy with clean energy in time for us to decarbonise and avert the worst consequences of global warming, we need to close down as many dirty energy sources as possible and replace them with clean energy sources.

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