In this context, generative design means using computers to assemble designs based on a set of rules, components and input parameters.
Industrial plastics have become so prevalent precisely because of their wide range of uses.And while they have been historically carbon heavy in their production, they also have the potential, in fact, to lessen carbon emissions in certain areas.. One positive example we are seeing of the increased use of industrial plastics is engineered plastics adding benefit as alternative building materials.
By reducing costs through lightening loads, and acting as better insulators to increase heating efficiency, industrial plastics have clear scope to deliver substantial cost benefits.These materials are useful, therefore, and we shouldn’t discount their potential in this area because of their historically carbon emission heavy synthesis.. Our goal, therefore, is to find ways to make the production of industrial plastics less reliant on fossil fuels and to reduce their carbon footprint as much as possible..The way we are focusing on achieving this is through carbon capture, which reduces emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) during synthesis by capturing emitted carbon dioxide and reusing it in other stages of the plastics manufacturing process..
Carbon Capture and Utilisation vs Carbon Capture and Storage.There are two main methods of carbon capture: carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) and carbon capture and storage (CCS).
The difference between them is that CCS takes the CO. 2. ,.
and stores it to be sold on to whoever needs it later, whereas CCU reuses the collected CO. 2. almost immediately.We must find ways to deliver what we need using much less.
Optimisation of materials, better control of logistics, automation in construction, fewer people on site – all of these factors will help to create an overall lower carbon version of the built environment.We’re already working hard with concrete manufacturers to find the lowest carbon form of concrete we can possibly use.
We’re talking to steel manufacturers about the types of steel which will be made by electric arc furnaces powered by hydrogen fuel cells.We’re evaluating whether it’s viable to grow enough forests to build buildings using timber.