The trend report.
Biome app.
BIOME DRIVES EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING FOR NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
Making the human, economic, and intrinsic benefits of nature visible to stimulate informed discussions for a single site, masterplan or whole portfolio of assets.
WHAT? Biome rapidly optioneers designs, flexibly tailoring landscape elements to respond to stakeholder and project priorities and quantifies both the monetary and non-monetary value created.
WHY? Nature can provide many benefits in urban environments including wellbeing, local cooling, and flood management and there is an emerging drive from investors and government policies to report on biodiversity gain.
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On the radar.
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PLANET VS PLASTICS: THE WAY FORWARD
The global theme for Earth Day 2024 was Planet vs Plastics. But what does it mean for the built environment? Taking holistic, systemic approaches that inherently reduce production and consumption will require informed long-term decisions that account for the true cost of building materials.
Let's talk – AshleyBateson@hoarelea.com
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WAKING UP TO WATER NEUTRALITY
Water supply stress and scarcity is becoming an increasingly global concern – changing how we service our buildings and provide water. For developers and operators, identifying considerations requires a balance to be struck between the key stakeholders.
Let's talk – DavidSorisi@hoarelea.com
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QUESTIONS OF COLLABORATION VS WELLBEING
Are collaborative work modes at odds with the wellbeing needs of end users? Spaces that support interdisciplinary collaboration must follow to principles of good acoustic design and embrace diversity of thought and people.
Let’s talk – GaelVilatarsana@hoarelea.com
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LIFE SCIENCES GET OPERATIONALLY READY
Setting up a new laboratory takes time, planning and management. We have helped create a guide to Operational Readiness, a critical stage in laboratory facility development.
Let's talk – ShaneMellon@hoarelea.com
Conversation kickstarter.
“The way you’re socially trained as a girl is to be a team player and deliver things that benefit everyone while taking no credit for them. You say ‘we’ because you don’t want to be singled out as bossy.”
Dr Jessica Wade, Faculty of Engineering – Imperial College London, and MBE for services to gender diversity in science.
“Whenever people were at the heart of the conversation, it made me suddenly understand the maths and the physics. For me to enjoy being an engineer, it had to be about the people.”
Yewande Akinola, engineer, consultant and Innovate UK ambassador, awarded an MBE for services to innovation & industry diversification.
Kaizen corner.
“Change for better: one-time or continuous, large or small.”
Machine or organism: how do you think of organisations? We often try to bring about cultural change in a mechanistic way as if organisations were like machines with predictable parts, but in reality they’re organisms – constantly shifting, responding and adapting.
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Empowering our people & communities.
Our first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy will guide the development of inclusive culture and practices. It is underpinned by four guiding DEI commitments: tackling root causes of inequity in our business; equitable recruitment, development and promotions; engaged and accountable leadership and embracing a growth mindset to empower everyone to shape a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and highperformance culture.
Let's talk – KieranValentine@hoarelea.com
Talking about.
Designing the Future 2024: disruption.
Disruption. How do we engage with it? Dorothy, drones, dogs and doughnuts – not a typical combination of topics, but all formed part of the fascinating ‘disruption’ talks at Designing the Future 2024 – our fourth annual event at the Royal Institution. Led by host, Jim Al-Khalili, our speakers shared insight into AI & Doughnut Economics to organisational culture and fuelling the food of the future!
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Caring about.
Collaboration in a competitive world.
While competition and collaboration may seem like opposing forces, open innovation can embrace both. Open innovation has the potential to break down systemic barriers, allowing people to be included in the process and the outcomes. It is inclusion and the broadening of horizons that drives and fuels this. Embracing open innovation is therefore an opportunity, an imperative, and even a responsibility.
Let's talk – DanielNovak@hoarelea.com