BREEAM Environmental Assessment and Swimming Facilities

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BREEAM Environmental Assessment and Swimming
Facilities Dr Ben Cartmell
ASA Pools for the Future Seminar Manchester
Town Hall, 9th April 2008
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The next 45 minutes

• Why BREEAM?
• The Environmental Assessment Consortium
• Introduction to BREEAM and future changes
• How to optimise a BREEAM score
• The Bespoke BREEAM process
• Associated considerations

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Why BREEAM?
Building Research Establishment Environmental
Assessment Method

• Aims
• Improve environmental performance of buildings
• Improve internal environment for occupants

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BREEAM An Introduction
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Why BREEAM?

• Planning Policy
• PPS22 Renewable Energy
• PPS1 Planning Climate Change (consultation)
• The London Plan / The Mayors Energy Strategy /
  ODA

• EPBD
• Building Regulations Part L
• Energy Certification / Labelling
• Code for Sustainable Homes (Buildings?)

Building a Greener Future Towards Zero Carbon
(Consultation)
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The Environmental Assessment Consortium
Rickaby Thompson Associates Ian Orme Catherine
Arotsky Kathryn Greatorex Rachael
Wilson Southfacing Services Ltd Ben Cartmell
Lucy Harris Rimante Okkels Gale Snowdon
Architects David Gale Alan Pither
Bespoke BREEAM BREEAM International BREEAM
Offices BREEAM Schools BREEAM Retail BREEAM
Further Education BREEAM Industrial BREEAM
Prisons Code for Sustainable Homes EcoHomes LEED
BRE Training
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The EAC BREEAM Operation

• Over 220 assessments (complete or in progress)
• Over 100 live projects
• Workload growing rapidly
• International projects underway
• Assessment team expanding

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Bespoke BREEAM example projects
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BREEAM International
Client Dubai Maritime City / BRE Development
Office, Retail, Industrial Residential. Bespoke
BREEAM assessment on five towers. Assistance to
developer and BRE in developing a BREEAM standard
for Dubai.
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BREEAM Overview

• Environmental Assessment Method
• Certification scheme
• Voluntary
• Independent credible
• Holistic
• Customer focussed
• Credits based

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BREEAM Scoring
PASS GOOD VERY GOOD EXCELLENT
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BREEAM Scoring

• Management
• Health Wbeing
• Energy
• Transport
• Water
• Materials
• Land Use
• Ecology
• Pollution

15 (0.75)
15 (0.83)
25 (1.0)
Environmental Weightings
05 (0.71)
10 (0.58)
15 (1.25)
15 (1.07)
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BREEAM Ratings

• Pass 25 40
• Good 40 - 55
• Very Good 55 - 70
• Excellent 70
• Outstanding 80 (BREEAM 2008)

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BREEAM Update

• BREEAM 2008
• Fundamental changes expected
• Minimum standards as per CSH
• Green Guide to Specification (2008)
• Information from May 2008
• Implementation from August 2008

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BREEAM Schemes
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BREEAM in the design process
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BREEAM in the design process
Specific credit consideration
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Optimise Management Credits

• Commissioning
• Whole Life Costing
• Building Users Guide
• Construction Site Impacts
• Considerate Constructors Scheme
• Construction Waste e.g. BRE SMARTWasteTM System
• Monitoring of site CO2 (site energy and
  transport), water and control of dust and noise.

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Optimise Health Wellbeing Credits

• Indoor noise (requirements for specific
  functional areas)
• 80 of relevant areas need to be adequately
  daylight
• Glare Control
• Openable windows in order to ensure a potential
  for natural ventilation
• Air pollution location of air inlets

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Optimise Health Wellbeing Credits cont.

• Minimising risk of internal air pollution
• 40m2 Lighting zones (4 workplaces)
• Thermal zoning
• Openable windows
• CIBSE lux levels
• Occupant controllable blinds
• Good daylighting

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Optimise Energy Credits

• Improvement over building regulations
• U-values better than current Building Regulations
  
• Sub-metering of major energy uses
• Tenancy sub-metering
• Pool covers (?)

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Optimise Transport Credits

• Green Transport Plan
• Minimise car parking/occupant ratio
• Provide secure and sheltered cycle locking spaces
  and facilities for cyclists

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Optimise Water Credits

• Dual flush WCs
• Waterless urinals and WCs
• PIR controls
• Spray or Aerating taps
• lt9litres/min showers
• Rainwater and Greywater usage
• Automatic water shut off systems
• Sanitary supply shut off
• Water recycling including pool backwash (?)
• Install a water meter !!

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Optimise Materials Credits

• Refurbishment rather than new building
• Provide storage area for recyclable materials
• Use of recycled aggregate material (for fill,
  hardcore etc)
• Use of A rated materials from the Green Guide to
  Specification or use ENVEST
• Design for robustness

2008 Update
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Optimise Materials Credits cont.

• Responsible Sourcing of Materials
• Use materials with suitable sustainable
  certification
• Timber should be certified under a recognised
  scheme, FSC and PEFC are best
• Other materials should be EMAS or ISO14000
  compliance
• Credit is assessed based on proportion of
  certified materials
• Tiered structure favours timber i.e. maximum
  credits cannot be achieved with non-timber
  construction

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Optimise Land-use and Ecology Credits

• Careful site selection
• Assess before on-site work commences
• Identify contaminated land
• Involve an appropriately qualified Ecologist
• Protect existing ecology
• Promote species diversity, native species,
  habitat creation
• Biodiversity management

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Optimise Pollution Credits

• Specify use of insulation materials with zero ODP
  and low GWP
• Install oil interceptors
• No refrigeration
• Build in an area of low flood risk and/or
  mitigate any flood risk
• Use of locally generated renewable energy
• Low NOx boilers

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Bespoke BREEAM setup process
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Bespoke BREEAM Assessment Process
Bespoke BREEAM Setup Processes
Pre-assessment works / Scenarios
Formal Bespoke BREEAM Assessment

• Assessment Delivery Report
• Updated Status Report / Guidance
• Final Assessment Report

QA Certification
Post Construction Review
QA Certification
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The two sides to Southfacing
London
Reading
Energy Environmental Consultancy
Design Development of Design Tools
Social Enterprise Projects
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Southfacings services

• Energy Environmental Consultancy
• Part L analysis and energy assessments (NHER,
  SBEM, Tas etc)
• Feasibility for low carbon technologies
  (building and site)
• Environmental assessments (BREEAM, Sustainable
  Code etc.)

• Software development
• Carbon Checker (Southfacing)
• Low Carbon Designer (London Energy Partnership /
  GLA)
• Climate Lite (DTI / BRE)
• Other at-risk projects.

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Climate Lite - Introduction

• Funding provided through the BERR (formerly DTI)
  Technology Programme.
• Steering Committee Chairman Bill Gething (RIBA)
• Project Partners
• BRE
• Southfacing Services Ltd.
• Cambridge Architectural Research
• University of Cardiff
• BGA Ltd.

Site
Form Fabric
Energy
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The Low Carbon Designer
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Design Tools
A Simple Part L2A Compliance checker
incorporating SBEM Now owned by Build Desk /
Rockwool.
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In Summary

• Most benefits taken through early consideration
  of BREEAM.
• Use your assessor they are there to provide
  guidance and to work with the project team.
• Major changes are coming with tighter standards.
• BREEAM should not be considered in isolation.
• BREEAM should be a collaboration between those
  setting the targets and those designing to the
  targets.
• ASA / Authorities What are your specific
  issues?

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