This, coupled with extensive deployment of glazing, allowed us to bring natural light to both circulation and process areas, enhancing the workplace environment and employee wellbeing.. Our alternative design for the milling building reduced operational CO. 2. emissions by more than 50% and capital cost by 30%.

Over millions of years of evolution although much has changed, they have not changed in size, because the size and structure represent a sweet spot for their function.You could say that we have learned similarly in the building of batteries; replicating and combining small cells works much better than trying to create large cells.

The body itself carries on the advantages of scaling.An organ contains some hundred billion cells and the body is made up of about 100 organs and limbs..If we look more broadly into the living world, we can see that size and scale are really important factors in function, efficiency, and survival.

Human beings are not accidentally the size we are.We’re a size that allows us to travel long distances.

We developed in the Rift Valley in Africa, a landscape that was rapidly changing, in relative terms, creating new and diverse habitats.

To survive and exploit this, we needed to be able to travel, develop technologies (fire and tools), problem solve, and adapt.Ten years ago, Marks says, those types of conversations wouldn’t have existed at all..

The different geos have different value propositions, just like clients, she says.Their different paths and strategies reflect their individual needs “based on the current environments that are there and what they're trying to overcome.

I think we can learn from one another,” she says.. For example, Singapore is very metrics-based.They’re tracking everything with technology and bringing industry and universities together to view things from different perspectives.