Architectural Assistant Mirabell Schmidt takes a seat on the University of Westminster’s crit panel

Each colour is also liked to a series of standard tasks, such as a number of bolts and setting on their torque wrench.

Opening windows in naturally ventilated buildings is accepted behaviour on warm days.But now it’s important to open the windows before people start to come into the building, and to let the building air at the end of the working day.

Longer office hours – in order to enable social distancing – will mean windows are typically open in the early morning.Heating systems will battle to heat buildings in the cool mornings, as the heat escapes out of open windows..Unless we think carefully about our heating controls, heating bills could well go through the roof..

But building occupiers will also need to balance the need to open the windows with safety security concerns, especially when there are periods of low or no occupancy.People on ground floors in largely empty offices may feel particularly vulnerable to intruders, for example.

And open windows or doors may pose a health and safety risk if there’s a chance people will walk into them.. There’s an equally complicated scenario for mechanically ventilated buildings.

With heat recovery devices switched off and air flows turned up to the maximum, buildings will struggle to warm up in the early morning.Available to purchase at.Like many, I am torn.

I am very clear that we are at a Rubicon for human life, we are rapidly changing the environment and damaging the eco-system.The geological record demonstrates that changes of this magnitude in the past have been catastrophic, particularly for the earth’s dominant species.

While contemplating this I remembered a quote from Jurassic Park “Life will find a way!”; and although the dominant species on earth have been lost a number of times in the past, others better adapted to the new conditions, survive and flourish.The rise of the dinosaurs came after volcanic eruptions led to conditions which wiped out 95% of the species on earth with a global temperature rise of about 7. o. C. The strike of a meteor led to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and the rise of mammals.