Health. Circularity. Carbon. Provenance.
We craft beautiful buildable spaces from healthy, carefully sourced low impact materials. We are committed to understanding and documenting the full life story of the materials that we specify to minimise negative environmental and social impacts and maximise opportunities for re-use and future disassembly.
Our work promoting local material supply chains, and helping to overcome regulatory barriers to market access for innovative environmentally responsible materials, has enabled us to support local economies and celebrate unique regional provenance and character in our buildings.
Our expertise in material impacts is underpinned by extensive research and in-house modelling tools that enable us to dynamically assess embodied carbon and whole life carbon through every stage of a project to guide decision making and deliver optimised specification solutions.
Material Impacts
Informed Material Specification
Architype have been consistently developing a healthy palette of robust, natural materials for many years.
With experience in designing to BREEAM Outstanding and Building Biology Standards we have a deep understanding of approaches to reduce physical, chemical and biological risks and eliminate toxic materials and electro-magnetic radiation to create natural, healthy-living environments that support well-being.
Circularity
Prioritising, enabling, and safeguarding re-use and upcycling over new materials
Our architectural perspective enables dovetailed thinking around regional material sourcing, dynamic re-use opportunities, creative up-cycling avenues, and designing for disassembly to support the circular economies of today and tomorrow.
Whole Life Carbon Assessment
Whole life carbon assessed through the lifecycle of a project - from individual buildings to complex estates.
Whole life carbon assessment presents a complete picture of the combined embodied carbon and operational carbon impact of a building over its full lifecycle.
Combining our expertise in embodied carbon analysis with our understanding of building energy performance enables us to give unique insights to help inform strategic target setting, design decision making and product specification. Our approach can help avoid unintended consequences where energy efficiency measures could have an unacceptably high embodied carbon penalty or vice versa.
Our in-house RICS v2 compliant Building Impact Library tool enables us to model whole life carbon across complex estates with multiple buildings and phases. We can test multiple future scenarios at an estate level to help shape the best trajectory to meet current and emerging carbon targets.
Embodied Carbon Assessment
Expert embodied carbon consultancy that drives positive project outcomes.
Embodied carbon assessments measure the climate impact of the material sourcing, construction processes, in-use maintenance and renewal, and end of life decisions. Using in-house software, we are able to dynamically assess the embodied carbon impact of designs, set deliverable evidence based project targets and make suggestions about how materials can be substituted and optimised to reduce overall impact.
Architype have been at the forefront of promoting the growing awareness of the importance of embodied carbon across the industry. Embodied carbon forms one key part of our broader commitment to understanding the impacts of the materials that we specify in terms of environmental impact, health, air quality and social responsibility.
While it is important that embodied carbon is assessed at key project milestones, we believe that a pro-active approach, monitoring and reporting on the impact of design decisions as they are proposed, is the best way to reduce carbon, risk and cost. This approach can also help identify win-win solutions that reduce both cost and carbon - for example through reducing the need for temporary works, the use of self-finishes or reducing overall material usage.
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