Sustainable Design and Construction Drivers Kate Mills Senior Sustainability Consultant, BRE [e-mail]

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Sustainable Design and Construction
DriversKate MillsSenior Sustainability
Consultant, BREmillsk_at_bre.co.uk
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UK sustainable development strategy - March 2005

• Principles
• Sustainable consumption and production
• Climate Change and Energy
• Protection of Natural Resources Environment
  enhancement
• Creating sustainable communities
• Regionally developed
• And three key themes
• Involving people
• Government leading by example
• Getting serious about delivery

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Legislation

• Duty to prepare community strategies, for
  promoting or improving the economic, social and
  environmental well being of their areas, and
  contributing to the achievement of sustainable
  development in the UK Local Govnt in Scotland
  Bill (2003)
• Any person or body creating a Regional Spatial
  Strategy or a Local Development Plan must
  exercise the function with the objective of
  contributing to the achievement of sustainable
  development Planning and Compulsory Purchase
  Act 2004

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The drivers

• Scottish Executive Guidance Choosing Our
  Future Scotlands Sustainable Development
  Strategy - 12 Making the Links Built
  Environment
• Scottish Executive Construction Procurement
  Manual - Sustainable Development section of
  website - Applies if audited by Auditor General
  for Scotland
• Sustainable Development Policy Into Practice New
  Buildings Scottish Executive April 2006

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The drivers

• Communities Scotland Sustainable Housing Design
  Guide and Housing Quality Assessment Programme
• SPP 1 inclusion in development plans of measure
  to promote sustainable development
• SPP 3 energy efficiency and use of resources
• PAN 72 local materials
• PAN 67 sustainability of housing developments
• PAN 63 provision of space of recycling

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The drivers

• SUDS requirements under Water Environment
  (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations
  2005
• Architecture and Design Scotland (www.ads.org.uk)
• BREEAM for Schools
• NEAT for NHS
• BREEAM for offices, industrial units, retail

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The drivers

• SE support Considerate Constructors Scheme
• Guidance from the Architecture Policy unit
  www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Arts-Culture/arch/initi
  atives
• SUST and RIAS Sustainable Design Accreditation
  Scheme

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The drivers

• Tougher building regulations consultation March
  06
• Raise levels of energy performance, incentivise
  the use of low and zero carbon technologies, inc
  micro-renewables and promote low energy lighting
  in new home
• Energy Performance Directive of Buildings
  Directive
• Ability to dry washing indoors - building regs

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Other Legislation and Policy Drivers

• Energy White Paper 60 CO2 reduction by 2050
• Better Building Summit Code for Sustainable
  Building (CSB)
• OGCs - Achieving Excellence in Construction
  Suite

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Other drivers

• Strategic Environmental Assessment for public
  sector strategies, plans and programmes
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Stakeholder pressure and accountability
• Environmental policies, statements and EMS
• Competition between developers?

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Future drivers

• Future revision of Scotlands Climate Change
  Programme
• Scottish Sustainable Procurement Action Plan (end
  06)
• PAN 45 planning issues for micro renewables
• SE consultation on site waste management plans
  and recycled content targets
• SBSA, Planning Group and Architecture Policy Unit
  publications on use of natural building materials

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Code for Sustainable Buildings

• National Code for Sustainable Buildings
• Government and the building industry to adopt a
  single Code for Sustainable Building.and that
  this be based on BREEAM / EcoHomes

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The Code - What is it?

• Single Code for Sustainable Homes, with clear
  minimum standards for key resource efficiency
  (energy, water, waste and use of materials).
• Plus optional Liveability elements, (Lifetime
  Homes, Security, Soundproofing, Private External
  space, Daylighting, Home User Guide).
• Five performance levels from basic one star up
  to carbon neutral five star
• Scoring minimum of 30, up to a level of 100
• Must do criteria augmented by optional
  tradeable elements
• Manifesto Commitment - from April 2006 all new
  homes receiving central funding will meet the new
  CSB.
• No plans for Non-Domestic CSB.and
• Only in England!

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Response to the Code - Whats happening here?
Building (Scotland) Act 2003 led the UK by
introducing powers to make building regulations
to further the achievement of sustainable
development

• March 06 - public consultation on extending
  certain Standards, due into force in May 2007
• March 06 - SBSA report Sustainable
  development policy into practice new buildings
• Existing and proposed measures to promote
  the sustainable development of new buildings
• Regulatory standards and guidance
• Conditions of public funding and guidance

Contact- Dr Linda Sheridan Scottish Building
Standards Agency
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Industry benchmarking

• First survey of 13 of UKs largest listed
  house-builders
• More than 50 of them lag behind best practice
• The leading companies demonstrated that
  sustainability can be integrated into mainstream
  business practices
• Public disclosure on sustainability is lacking.

WWF in conjunction with Insight Investment
January 2004
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Why - UK Property industry overview

• 8 UK GDP
• 1.5 m people employed
• 170,000 Companies
• 90 m tonnes of waste
• CO2 emissions related to construction- 60
• Aggregate consumption - 260 m tonnes / yr
• Timber consumption - 60 of UK total
• Buildings responsible for gt 50 of UK CO2

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UK Energy Use by Buildings
Housing 63
Source BRE
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Why?

• Policy into practice
• Remit
• Knowledge and training
• Policy, systems and processes
• At the start
• Time and budget
• Setting the brief
• Getting the right integrated team
• Informed clients

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Why?

• Conservative constructors
• Contracts for engineers
• Speculative development
• Quantitative benchmarks and targets
• Monitoring
• Accountability

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Kate Millsmillsk_at_bre.co.uk

• www.bre.co.uk