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When asked about COP26, Gogan says she noticed a couple of major changes at the event this past year, which stood out from previous conferences.One of the key things she noticed was that representation from the Global South is increasing.
The Global South is composed of poor countries who lack access to energy to help build their economies and infrastructure.Gogan notes that the people in these areas are already very exposed to climate impacts, and they’re also much less resilient to them.These countries have a simultaneous demand for both energy growth and decarbonisation, meaning that they’re in very serious need of clean energy solutions..
Considering that the industrialised world has contributed the majority of historical carbon emissions, Gogan points out that it’s really becoming socially unacceptable for us to continue to move so slowly to decarbonise our own economies, giving support to one technology, but not another.This is heightened by the fact that nuclear plants are currently providing about half of Europe’s clean energy, which leads to the obvious question: how can we justify shutting them down and replacing them with coal and gas?.
Rising Carbon Emissions.
Alarmingly, despite having spent decades now talking about action for climate, carbon emissions continue to rise year-on-year.A truss is an assembly, typically made from timber or steel, which forms part of the structural frame of a building.
The aim of this project was to produce an automated design tool for a structural building system comprised of a small number of truss assemblies, that could then be mass produced in an automated factory..The truss system design is an automated, digital workflow which takes client requirements including geometrical constraints and preferred materials, and uses iterative parametric 3D modelling to develop individual truss designs.
Structural optimisation and validation are included as part of this process to ensure that the truss meets the required specification.Once complete, these 3D models become a suite of outputs which can drive further analysis of the wider system.