Planning Application Carbon Evaluation and Reduction (PACER) Platform

国家排放预算的大部分将用于建筑环境。这将包括具体化碳(制造、运输、建筑)和运营碳(电力和热能)。总而言之，我们将这些称为终身碳(WLC)。地方当局是在这个碳密集型建筑环境中降低WLC的守门人，因为他们管理着哪些建设工作获得规划许可。直到最近，向地方当局提出的规划申请还不包括碳计算，但仍需要数月时间才能获得批准(6)。地方当局现在被分配了一个不断缩小的碳排放预算，分配到他们的管辖范围内，但没有工具来准确和一致地量化经过他们办公桌的数百页未经过滤的长文件。基于全球领先该领域的学者多年来的工作，PreOptima已经建立了一个自动化软件工具PreoptimaBUILDING，通过为建筑从概念到拆除提供一个碳孪生兄弟来最大限度地减少建筑环境中的WLC。这被建筑师和设计师用来揭示他们所做的每一个设计选择对碳的影响。从最早的概念阶段开始，PreoptimaBUILDING使用真实的结构方程和地理位置规则探索对碳影响最大的所有设计参数的变化(例如，外壳和核心材料、地板到天花板的高度、网格尺寸、釉面面积的比例)。对于每个设计变化，PreoptimaBUILD都能准确计算所需的材料数量。PreoptimaBUILDING已被证明具有减少全生命周期碳排放的能力，通常可减少25%至40%。在此项目中，伦敦领先的地方政府机构威斯敏斯特市议会与英国中小企业PreOptima合作开发和演示了基于云的**规划局碳评估和减少**(PACER)平台，这是一个快速、可靠、准确的工具，只需点击一个按钮即可验证设计的全生命周期碳评估！它将以标准化的方式做到这一点，允许可追溯性和透明度，至关重要的是，将导致符合标准和法规的更低的终身碳建筑设计。这个GB 379,909 12个月的项目将在WCC内开发急需的PACER，并展示其在建筑环境中削减WLC的潜力。威斯敏斯特市议会热衷于解决这一瓶颈，让自己和全国同行利用建筑环境中巨大的潜在碳节约，由于其在英国**40亿kgCO2e/年**的影响，从根本上改善英国国家净零承诺的途径。

The majority of the National emissions budget will be used in the built environment. This will include both the embodied carbon (manufacture, transportation, construction) and operational carbon (power and heat). Together, we refer to these as Whole Life Carbon (WLC).Local Authorities are the gatekeepers to lower WLC in this carbon-heavy built-environment because they govern which construction-work gets planning-permission.Until very recently, planning-applications to Local Authorities did not include carbon-calculations and yet took months to approve(6). Local Authorities are now allocated a shrinking carbon-emissions budget to be allocated across their jurisdiction yet have no tool to quantify carbon accurately and consistently across the hundreds of pages of unfiltered long documents that pass their desks.Based on many years' of work by academics who lead in this field globally, Preoptima has already built an automated software tool, PreoptimaBUILDING, to minimise WLC in the built-environment by providing a Carbon Twin for a building, from concept to demolition. This is used by architects and designers to shine a light on the carbon impact of every individual design choice that they make. From the earliest conceptual stage, PreoptimaBUILDING explores all the variations of design parameters that have the biggest impact on carbon (for example shell and core materials, floor to ceiling height, grid dimensions, proportion of glazed area) using real structural equations and geolocated regulations. For each design variation PreoptimaBUILD calculates accurately the material quantities required. PreoptimaBUILDING has the proven ability to reduce Whole Life Carbon, typically by 25% to 40%.In this project, the leading London local authority in carbon-reduction, Westminster City Council, collaborates with UK-based SME Preoptima to develop and demonstrate a cloud-based **Planning Authority Carbon Evaluation and Reduction** (PACER) platform, a quick, reliable, accurate tool to validate whole life carbon assessments of designs at the click of a button! It will do so in a standardised manner allowing traceability and transparency and, vitally, will result in lower whole life carbon building designs that adhere to standards and regulations.This £379,909 12-month project will develop urgently-needed PACER within WCC and demonstrate its potential to cut WLC in the built-environment.Westminster City Council is keen to tackle this bottle-neck for itself and its peers nationally to leverage the enormous potential carbon savings in the built-environment, radically improving the pathway for UK's national Net Zero commitments due to its impacts of **4Bn kgCO2e/year** in the UK.