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Climate Emergency and Public Realm Carbon Assessment Roundtable

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Last year we set ourselves a new mission – to be net positive by 2028 and work towards a regenerative future. They’re big ambitions but we know collectively we have to achieve our promise to the industry, our planet and its people. There is no alternative.
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This week marked a big step on that journey.  We met with our future focused client, London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC), four leading landscape architect practices, three sustainability engineers, a landscape materials supplier, and an environmental consultant around the table to discuss how to reduce the carbon footprint of future design updates to the external realm of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This iconic park in East London has flourished over its 12 year lifetime now nurturing over 70,000 plant species from across the world, an orchard, meadows and the River Lea providing a natural wetland.

The discussion centred on the future of the park - helping to shape the Park’s Design Guide and future neighbourhoods over the next 50 years so that it can:

  • Challenge industry preconceptions regarding what is achievable in relation to embodied carbon within landscape materials.
  • Guide future projects to produce less impactful designs through development of innovative new tools and data.
  • Help schemes with the LLDC to become climate-positive as early as feasible.
  • Create climate-resilient landscapes.
  • Ensure landscape architecture is key to addressing the climate emergency through dynamic and responsive design.
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The round table discussion was the start of a collective journey to share knowledge and viewpoints with peers and industry leaders to help answer important questions such as - carbon reduction in a project lifecycle; what is low carbon design and low carbon management; do we need a net zero public realm definition; the carbon assessment of surfacing materials and products; understanding the value of climate resilience; the importance of measurement and building a decision matrix for the future. 

The findings of this workshop and the development of new decision-making tools will evolve into an update to the Park Design Guide by Planit, to be finalised by spring of this year.

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London Legacy Development Corporation, LDA, Land Use Consultants, McGregor Coxall, ReShaped, Buro Happold, Expedition Engineers/Useful Projects, Etude, Hardscape, Greengage

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