Incorporate sustainable design principles into a development and see both financial and environmental savings
Involved at the design stage, Living Logic can reduce a building’s impact on the environment, from both materials used in its construction and energy used in its operation through the inclusion of sustainable features and passive design techniques.
Sustainable & passive design
- Improving natural daylight levels
- Utilising natural ventilation for summertime cooling and heat recovery for winter heating
- Using improved levels of insulation and glazing
- Build to Passive House standards
- Identify the benefits of using concrete, masonry, timber and other surface finishes in the build
- Incorporating rainwater harvesting, grey-water recycling, green roofing and renewable energy technologies
Climate analysis
- Identifying how the local weather conditions and geographical location of a site will impact on a proposed design and assessing whether the design of the building will perform efficiently in its chosen orientation.
Daylight & solar analysis
- Evaluating how heat gains from the sun can affect the internal comfort levels of a building by reducing glare and summertime internal solar gains
- Improve internal daylight levels which lower artificial lighting demand and associated running costs, as well as create a positive and productive internal environment for the occupants
Thermal performance
- Analysis of the fabric performance in terms of heat transfer and retention, reducing heating demand in winter and identifying the potential for night-time cooling in summertime to help reduce internal daytime temperatures
- Identify where thermal bridges occur and reducing the impact of them on the building’s performance
Ventilation & airflow modelling
- Ensuring adequate natural ventilation flows meet the building’s requirement to provide comfort for the occupants
- Reducing the requirement for mechanical ventilation by identifying the possibility of a natural ventilation or mixed mode strategy
- Identifying the opportunity of night-time cooling to reduce the demand for daytime cooling