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I think there are enough [female] role models at very very senior levels that there aren’t any blockers within it..

The huge stakeholder engagement effort that informed the new prison design was the biggest piece of research ever undertaken by the department into the effectiveness of prison design and building use.This is a very good example of how evidence underpins our approach to design.. Stakeholders and sources of evidence included:.

Serving and former prison governors, staff and prisoners.Prisoner support groups, including the Prison Advice and Care Trust.Policy staff and academics from across Europe.

A review of other models of incarceration and a comprehensive literature review relating to carceral geography.Clearly, no prison design concept will inherently rehabilitate people.

‘Buildings don’t heal people; people heal people.’ However, design choices can support positive social interactions and preclude or reduce negative interactions..

The design aspects that support this include:.Based on UKGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings “A framework definition", a typical Cat A office’s building embodied carbon, after the first year of use, would be 75% of the total carbon, whilst the operational carbon would be around 25%.

Although the operational carbon will accumulate overtime, a decarbonised grid will mean that the growth rate will flatten, and after 60 years the embodied carbon will still remain higher than operational carbon, as shown in Figure 2.This means that the focus and the priority should shift from operational to embodied carbon during the design..

Embodied and operational carbon increase in a decarbonised grid scenario.In this context, the request for Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA) has increased notably over the last few years.