Introduction - Innovative Design and Energy Efficiency of Woodland Trust HQ
This report is discussing the architecture, structural approach, construction of the building, cost of maintenance and operations, and the energy usage of the Woodland Trust headquarters, which is a non-dwelling building and uses Advanced and efficient construction techniques. This report is also mentioning the guidance and the regulations that are used for the construction. The internal area that is used after completing the construction is also discussed in this article. It is also mentioned that if the building should be made in the future, which is the recommendation that should follow. Also, many constructional terms are used for safety precautions, and also the prediction that should be followed during the maintenance of the construction. Energy usage is also an important part of advanced construction; it should be followed during the construction process. Some regulations are changed, and also the changes are continuing in the future. So there are also advantages and disadvantages to the changes in the regulation. The materials that are used for the construction are also improved with time, so there are also some rules regarding the material used in the construction.
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Woodland Trust HQ is an office building which is a non-dwelling building constructed in 2010. This building is a perfect choice to discuss the changes in the regulations that are used for the construction work, and also the material that is used for the construction (Ahmad et al, 2021). In 10 years, the rules, regulations, and architectural and structural designs have mostly changed. Also, the energy usage for construction has changed with time.
Task 1: Description of the building architecture
Building’s purpose
The building of Woodland Trust HQ is providing meeting and office space for around 240 staff. This building is a sustainable and innovative building that is built on a modest budget. This building is used for office work and also as a meeting.
Usage plus characteristics
This building also has natural ventilation, which will be the strategy for the extensive use of this ventilation. This building is facing the light shelf that is designed for daylighting, which is required for the employees who are working in the building (Akyazi et al, 2020). This building also has cooling for the room, which is used for server maintenance. The building was constructed 10 years ago. At that time, the rules, regulations, and the design that is used for the construction are different.
Figure 1: Architectural style of Woodland Trust HQ
Architectural style
A modern architectural style is used to make the building. This building is a three-story building that has unique features, which were constructed with the use of timbers (Araba et al, 2021). The innovative concrete is also used with the radiator system. The concrete panels enhanced the floor’s rigidity. Some structure uses cross-laminated timber. The beams and columns are up to the center and are also used in the row without any structural frame.
The gross internal area is the area that is included in the area of the wall. The Headquarters of the Woodland Trust building has a gross area of 2728 square meters (Chowdhury et al, 2020). This area is included with the treated area of 2650 square meters and also the 2368 square meters of net area. This area is determined as the usable area, which is used for the office. These areas are calculated for the calculated cost that is used due to the construction.
Number of rooms
Several rooms in this building are used. The rooms are: server rooms, central store room, training room, number of meeting rooms, kitchen, store, etc. There are other rooms which are used in the office area. Several areas are not covered in the rooms but are used (Graybeal et al, 2020). Each room has different criteria for use. Such as meeting rooms are used for conducting the meetings. These rooms have natural ventilation which provides the best experience for office employees. These rooms also provide an area that is used for improving the work environment. Rooms have the proper area for providing natural light. The system that is used for increasing the user experience is also there in the area of the rooms.
Figure 2: External area of Woodland Trust HQ
External faced area
The headquarters of the Woodland Trust building is situated a short distance from the office that was previously rented (Hung et al, 2019). This building has a charitable objective that is charitable and also made at low cost and with high quality. The engineers and architects who are designing the building previously designed that building for the National Trust office. This building is having an environmental impact on it. This headquarters is designed with the modern concept of architecture that is providing the best quality for the employees. The external area is mostly user-friendly and also has an impact on the environment. This building is located 1 km from the railway station and the center of Grantham. This area contains industry, retail, commercial, and also sports buildings (Jiang et al, 2021). This building is also tall faced and it will make a statement that will browse the access of the road that is arrived from the distance.
Building economics
This building is being upgraded due to the efficient energy usage, and the environmental impact, which has positively impacted the office building. Also, the natural ventilation of the rooms that are provided in the building (Khoso et al, 2021). This building has the proper environment that will upgrade the economy of the building.
Figure 3: UK green building construction industry databook
Social value
This headquarters has the highest social value due to the low energy consumption, the system that will provide the natural lighting for the room, and the natural ventilation that will reduce the energy usage and also have an impact on the environment. These causes are upgrades in the social value of the building.
Figure 4: Environmental impact of Woodland Trust HQ
Environmental impact
This building is having the proper environmental impact. This Woodland Trust office building is using some kind of technique that will provide the natural process (Lee et al, 2022). Some processes will be used, such as natural ventilation, and the techniques of natural lighting, such as a canopy. The energy efficiency of the building is also increased by the large stairs, which will replace the lift, which should be consuming extreme energy.
Task 2: Description of building construction
Figure 5: Floor plan of Woodland Trust HQ
To make this building, several procedures are followed,d and also the rules and regulations are used for the construction. Every construction will follow the proper steps for the construction. It will also follow the time efficiency that is mentioned in the construction. For the construction first, they have to survey the land and test the soil that is required for the structural design. After that planning is required. Plans are provided for the appropriate area of the construction. The structural drawing is also made during this time.
The construction will be made based on the plans. This plan will also provide the area that is used for calculating the cost of the construction (Li et al, 2021). After completing the construction, comes the maintenance process. This maintenance process also needs a proper cost. Building construction also needs a contract that is made for making the construction cost-efficient and time-efficient.
There are some rules and regulations that will be needed for the constitutional approach. There are some regulations that are followed for energy-efficient buildings and also sustainable buildings. The emission of CO2 is for the gross internal area. There are some breakdowns on the consumption of the figures. The difficulties are with the sub-metering. The estimate for the Woodland Trust will be calculated by the IES of the building regulations. These regulations are mostly about the environmental impact on the building.
This office building has properties that will make the building a green building, and it will also follow the rules of green building (Manzoor et al, 2021). This building has 120kWh/m^2 of electricity consumption, which is mostly similar to the figure design. The estimate for the design is collected due to the dynamic thermal simulation. The result that is based on the time will provide the best experience for the employees. The corresponding loads that are regulated have effects on the unregulated load that is generated by the server room of the office.
To reduce energy usage, there are so many procedures that should be used.
Figure 6: Heat absorption of Woodland Trust HQ building
This process uses sustainable energy like natural lighting using a large window that will provide a huge amount of light from the sunlight (Purba et al, 2020). Also, natural ventilation that is providing the proper air so that no one is suffocated. It will also be good for health, and reduce the cost also.
Woodland Trust has used the lower power system for the pump and the operation for better variables. The water pumping is assigned to the server rooms that will use the server rooms for cooling purposes. Lifts are also not used in this building, this building has large stairs that will provide proper communication between the floors. This building is also having catering that will be in the kitchen of the Woodland Trust. There is also the drink machine which should be used by the employees of the office (Sawhney et al, 2020). The plant room was lightweight and also considered a boiler point that will be embedded in the structure of steel.
The structural approach will be embedded and it is made with the heat protective structure so that the construction should reduce the heating issue, which will be operated as unnecessary heating issues (Senninger and Senninger, 2019). Woodland Trust will be operating regularly. In the construction, there will be regular maintenance of the overheating. This construction has an equally important effect, and also the carbon footprint that is overall remained by the Woodland Trust and the relation with the Heelys. Renewable energy supplies will also be used to positively impact the environment. The power supplies were maintained by the cooling alarm that was also compressing the heat, which is generated (Tang et al, 2021). The possible performance should be possible for minimizing the overheating problem.
There are some hot water cylinders which will support the manufacturing of Sunray for the client. The implications are using energy. The secondary pump is used for operating the non-circulating water, which should suggest the switching that is the same timed and the supplying of the water. The heat leaking is also stopped by the unnecessary plant for replacement. The lighting will also be maintained with the canopy, and it will also provide ambient lighting.
This was the entrance which will be currently operating the improvement of the control that will be rigid (Wang et al, 2021). The overridden reception for the operations will also save the improvement. Some materials are used for the most impact on the environment. These materials are such as timbre and steel, which will not harm the environment. These materials also have to be sustainable and maintain the basic criteria for construction. The methodology will be used to investigate the purpose.
Task 3: Building advantages and recommendations
Building advantages
There are many advantages to building the Woodland Trust. This building is affecting the environment, which will be more efficient than a green building. The process that is used in the building is also the best process to make the building more sustainable and work efficiently. This construction will make the natural ventilation of the rooms that will replace the fan or air conditioner (Wu et al, 2019).
This building also has a natural light-providing process, which will increase the light and also save the consumption of energy. Renewable energy was used in the building, so it will be more relevant for the green building. There are some materials which are used in the construction of the Woodland Trust headquarters that will have an environmental impact. This will also be required for energy efficiency. There are some large stars which will be providing a way to connect the building vertically. To avoid the extra heating issue, this building will be using the water cooling system to cool the server room of the building. It will also cool the whole building (Yap et al, 2022). There is also some process that will have an environmental impact. These processes are the potentiality of the air quality with the large ventilation. This ventilation also reduced the heat.
Recently changed regulations and guidance
Some rules have recently changed and also have been applied in the UK for energy-efficient buildings. These rules are effective from June 2022. It will also have to follow all the other construction sites. These regulations have impacted the reduction of 40% of energy usage. This structure should also reduce the carbon technologies that are used for construction. There are solar panels which are having less effect on the environment (Zhang et al, 2020).
This renewable energy use will also reduce energy usage, which will harm the environment. The heat pump will be providing the technologies that will be reducing the heat that was generated due to the usage of the building. These regulations are mainly affecting the energy efficiency of the building. This process is also cost-effective.
Recommendations
The building already has properties that are supported as a green building. This building is already energy efficient. If this building is to be made in the future, there will be some changes that are required. The rules are changing day by day, so it will have to affect the construction and the structural and also the architectural design that will be providing the best conditions for the construction procedure and the proper usage of the materials (Zhou et al, 2020).
The structural element should be heat resistant so that the heating issue will be reduced and also have no effect on the building. The architecture will be sustainable and also reduce the load that will be generated due to the self-weight. The environmental impact will be the quality that will matter with the different materials that is used due to the construction. Some reusable components should be used as the construction material. The steel structure is more sustainable than concrete. Maintenance cost is also lower.
Operational energy use: Energy usage should be reduced with reusable energy like solar energy. This will also reduce the extreme use of energy sources. There are some other techniques with the designs that will be helping to reduce energy usage.
Embodied energy/carbon: Greenhouse gases should also be reduced for this, the source of the carbon emission should be reduced. The instruments that will discharge carbon should be reduced, and also the product that will be used for renovation and an easy-to-lead lifestyle has to be maintained as per the life.
Cost of construction: The cost of the construction will depend upon the implementation. The cost will be reduced if that situation finds a way to make those buildings reduce the cost, and also the different architectural processes will differently affect the cost of the construction. There will be using reusable materials, which will be cost-efficient, and also it will reduce the process that will make the cost high. With some techniques, the cost should be reduced.
Cost of operation and maintenance: The cost of operation will depend on the value of the land. Mostly the value will increase due to time. So it is effective on the project timing and the area of the land. If this building should be built, the cost of operation should be increased. The maintenance charge should be decreased if this building is made with sustainable materials. There is also the design that will affect the cost of the building maintenance. Maintenance should be required for any building, but if the building has been made with the proper material that is sustainable and efficient. The maintenance cost will also be reduced by the techniques during the instructional process. To reduce heating issues, there will be some procedures that should be applied. Reducing the heating issues also reduces the cost of maintenance of the construction.
End-of-life reuse/ recycling: There are many materials that are reusable, and it will also reduce the cost, and also make the building energy efficient. This material should be used. There are many materials that will be reusable, but not used, so first, we have to find those materials and then analyze if they are used in the construction section or not. After that, if those materials should be used in the building, they should be used during the construction. Fly ash is a reusable material that is also used in construction. So much material will be used if the Woodland Trust headquarters are made in the future.
Conclusion
This report contains the effect of the construction, which will be the advanced system for the headquarter building of the Woodland Trust. The first part of the report discusses the architectural design of the building, which will also contain the external area, the internal gross area, the usage of the area, etc. Then it comes to the constitutional design of the building that is containing the material that is used during the construction, the energy usage of the construction, the Constructional procedures, etc. After that, in task 3, it is mentioned that the good things about the construction are the regulations. There is also mention about whether the building should be constructed, and what changes should be made that are mentioned in the report, also. This will also depend on the section that will be the changes, which are needed to follow and reduce the energy usage of the building. These changes are also dependent on some sections, such as the construction cost, the operational and the maintenance cost, and the reusable material that should be used during the construction. This report represents the techniques of sustainable green building that will be made in the future and compares them with the building that was made 10 years ago.
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