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Drivers and business needs

Including Sustainability in the Brief Kate Mills Senior Sustainability Consultant, BRE millsk@bre.co.uk. Drivers and business needs. Identify policy drivers Environmental policies How does this integrate with the business needs? Identify capital and whole life resources.

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Drivers and business needs

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  1. Including Sustainability in the BriefKate MillsSenior Sustainability Consultant, BREmillsk@bre.co.uk

  2. Drivers and business needs • Identify policy drivers • Environmental policies • How does this integrate with the business needs? • Identify capital and whole life resources

  3. Identify user needs • Regional and local plans • Existing community provisions or future needs • How will the development enhance the community? • Public consultations

  4. Options to meet user needs • Develop options for project (site) • Consider overall economic, environmental and social impacts • Project specific public consultation • Consider refurbishment v new build • Assess costs and benefits using WLC

  5. Project sustainability • Sustainability objectives • Identify all relevant sustainability requirements • Planning requirements and EIA • Specification and scope for project • Major risks • Project programme and budget for sustainability • The right integrated team • Procurement method?

  6. Project brief • Pollution (land, air, water) • Internal environment • Community impact, equity and access • WLC • Site issues and ecology • Energy • Materials • Sustainability regulations • Transport • Waste • Water

  7. Tools and indicators • Considerate Constructors Scheme • BREEAM for Offices, Retail, Industrial Units • BREEAM for Schools • NEAT for NHS • SmartWaste • Design Quality Indicators • Key Performance Indicators from Constructing Excellence • Environmental Management Systems and Environmental Policies • EPIs – Constructing Excellence

  8. The site - Inverness

  9. Procurement • Good advice at the start • Sustainability expertise as part of core team • Budget • Choice and use of procurement method? • Site and transport • Orientation

  10. Writing the brief • Quantifiable benchmarks • Reporting requirements • Environmental Management System • Monitoring strategy

  11. The targets • 0-8 kg/Carbon/m2 per annum • 4% average daylight factor and uniformity factor of 0.4 • 6.4m3/per person/ per annum water consumption • A rated materials for external walls, windows, roof • Sustainable certified timber • Insulation without ODP and GWP less than 5

  12. The targets • Green procurement system • Excellent BREEAM rating • Monitor carbon dioxide emissions • Considerate Constructors Scheme • Demolition audit and construction waste • Sustainable transport plan with client • Environmental Management System

  13. The process • Use the procurement method • Measurable benchmarks • Selection of developer • Evaluation process and interviews

  14. The result

  15. The result

  16. Demolition

  17. Demolition

  18. Demolition

  19. Demolition

  20. SUDS

  21. SNH Inverness

  22. Monitoring and reporting • Environmental policy • Environmental Management System • Monthly reporting by constructor • Use of BREEAM • Considerate Constructors Scheme • Client monitoring

  23. Post construction review • Post-construction BREEAM assessment • Monitoring of carbon target • Monitoring of water use • Implementing travel plan • Analysis of data collection from construction phase

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