A short interview excerpt about converting buildings for sustainability, emphasizing heating and power as the largest drivers of climate impact. The speaker contrasts retrofitting existing barns/units with designing new builds, noting it is easier to avoid fossil fuels when starting from scratch.
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Some of the features and the things that you can do. Can you talk us through some of those features and what why you've kind of put those in for the sustainability sector?
I think the first thing worth saying is that if you're so for all three of our units or three of our barns, we've converted them so we've taken an existing building and changed it dramatically. So I think when you're looking at the first thing when you look thinking about sustainability is how you heat and how you power your places, you know, that's by far the biggest impact in terms of climate change. And if you're able to design a way of doing that which isn't focused around fossil fuels from the word go, then that's much easier than taking an existing building and converting it. So I think it's just worth saying that we were in a sort of lucky position somewhat because we could start from scratch. So.