Air Quality Event 10th June 2005 Andrew Thomas Centre for Construction Innovation NWDA Best Practice

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Air Quality Event10th June 2005Andrew
ThomasCentre for Construction InnovationNWDA
Best Practice hub Construction Cluster
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Air Pollution - not just an AIRy fairy issue
CO2
CO2
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What is NOT Sustainable Construction ?

• Using over 420 million tonnes of material
  resources and converts 6,500 hectares of land
  from rural to urban use each year.
• 13 million tonnes of construction and demolition
  waste is material delivered to sites but never
  used.
• Generating 90 million tonnes of construction and
  demolition waste every year
• That is 3 times the waste produced by all UK
  households combined.
• Consuming 10 of national energy in the
  production and transport of construction products
  and materials
• Building services accounts for 50 of the UKs
  emissions of carbon dioxide.
• Creating 21 of the hazardous waste in the UK.

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Bad Action Bad Consequences

• Climate change is making flood management an
  increasingly important factor in deciding where
  to locate new development.
• Presently,
• 1.85 million houses
• 185,000 commercial properties
• are at risk from flooding
• figures that are likely to increase under
  planned future development. without considering
  climate change.

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The NW regional picture
Huge regional variances in AQ performance Urban
Hot spots. Rural fall out areas of
consequences Agency Policy and Govt Policy
driving towards Sustainability in Design and
Action. Salford is a designated URC an important
as a vehicle to deliver Policy Agency require
measured performance on own projects and funded
projects.. Seeking ongoing sustainable
improvements and to reduce negative impacts
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DescriptionThe majority of the eastern part of
Salford from the M60 ring road to the City Centre
of Manchester and its borders with Bury and
Bolton and westward along the M62 corridor and
northwards on the M61.Pollutants
DeclaredNitrogen dioxide (NO2), Particulate
Matter lt 10 µm (PM10)
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Tools of Change

• Education Brochures, leaflets, awareness
  raising, Sustainability NW, Event involvement,
  EnWorks provision, Sustainability NW and others
• Motivation Awards sponsorship, recognition of
  Best Practice, Acknowledgement of Excellence,
  Competitive advantage under Quality selection and
  performance based work awards.
• Lead by Example be seen to do, as you expect
  others to do for and with you
• Expectation It is how we do business, if you
  dont do, then you wont get
• Conditionality of behaviour If you say you do,
  and then dont.there will be consequences and
  clawback
• Measurement .and consequence how you measure
  will be prescribed and in a standard form.
• Review of strategy and actions to accommodate
  change RES review taking place during 2005
  please involve yourself and inform the future

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NWDA Actions underway ?

• Policy aligned delivery and improvement is
  expected from Deliverers and Funded partners of
  NWDA
• Performance will be measured
• Obligations are increasingly contractual
• Dedicated Environmental and Sustainability
  Officer in NWDA Mark Atherton, Advice and
  support services through EnWorks and others
• Change and Education Programme underway for 2
  years now in implementation phase

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Mystified by frameworks ?
Framework Toolkit www.ivisual.co.uk/ce
Benefits Economies of Scale Buying
Leverage Standard solutions Continuity
Integration Collaboration of Supply Chain
Efficiency gains
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OGC Minimum Standards in Contract

• OGC are establishing basic requirements for all
  construction projects
• Currently in review stage for Summer 2005
  publication current list
• Basic environmental standards
• Considerate Constructors
• CSCS cards for all site personnel
• And others

NWDA establishing design and sustainability
review panels, Green Design Guides, Enhanced
Project Appraisal processes all reflecting
sustainability issues, Conditional minimum
standards, use of KPIs and on grant funded
projects. Explicit Sustainability measure and
targets piloted in project funding contracts -
Project unity to be rolled out on ALL future
projects
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On Line KPI Engine Standardising measurement
and easier data collection
Measured performance use of Environmental
Indicators
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Improving Public Services Through Better
Construction Development

• Looking for 2.5 improvement in efficiency 2005/
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• Key Recommendations
• Better long term planning (5 year horizons)
• Leadership and cross departmental activity
• Transparent procurement and influencing supplier
  behaviours
• Use of Gateways
• Sustainability Action Planning
• Use of WLC/ WLV data
• E Govt and E procurement

Benefits cashable and non cashable Adoption of
sustainability Checklist learning from SEEDA
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Improving Public Services Through Better
Construction

• Use of benchmarking and performance to keep
  competitive tension in long term arrangements
• Collaborative contracts (ECC mentioned) and fair
  pay arrangements
• Post-completion performance
• Energy efficiency
• Combine construction activity across depts
• Support for infrequent clients
• Identify and support good practice

Minimum BREEAM Very Good on all NWDA projects,
sustainability checklist, Quality Based
selection on frameworks, Regional Transport
Strategy, Obligations on Developers to include
Public transport alternatives.
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Do we know the scale of the challenge ?

• London
• Ensure developments are of high quality,
  incorporating sustainable design and construction
  methods to minimise the environmental impact. -
  (Draft London Plan, GLA, June 2002)

• Based on Corporation of London and BRE figures
• over 4,000 construction vehicles entering the
  City of London daily trips
• If each vehicle trip is 22.5 kms this means over
  24,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere yearly,
  enough to fill 4,000 hot air balloons
• Congestion charging
• 5 per vehicle per day
• Nationally
• 360 million tonnes of construction materials are
  used each year
• The equivalent of 90 million full truck loads of
  4 tonnes
• Industry is worth 60 billion annually (8 of GDP)

Do we know what Salford Numbers are ?
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Transport is a HUGE Polluting Influence New Build
school in Cheshire Project miles calculation
Environmental Performance Indicators
Transport Aim - Calculate Number of Miles to
Construct Project How ??
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Environmental Performance Indicators Transport

• Site Management / Staff
• Permanent Staff
• Visiting Staff general visitors
• Engineer etc
• Subcontractors / Directly Employed Craftsmen
• Groundworkers ME operatives
• Single visit contractors white lining, mastic,
  diamond drilling etc
• Labourers
• Material Plant Deliveries
• Willmott Dixons material plant deliveries
  collections
• Subcontractors deliveries collections
• Clients deliveries

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SUMMARY OF CALCULATION
Total Mileage - 221,758 miles Cost of
Project - 1.32 million Gross Floor Area
- 1,105 m2 Cost / m2 - 1,195 /
m2 Mileage (50p/mile) - 221,758 x 50p
111,000 or 8.5 of project cost Interesting
Statistic ? .. for a small school in Cheshire
Lets put it into perspective
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9 times
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Learning from others ?
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Learning from Others..
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Environmental Benefit - Did it make any
Difference ?
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Learning from Others ?Additional impacts /
Benefits

• Economic Impact
• Increases in project plan reliability of up to 5
  
• Net cost savings from trade contractor packages
  of 1.9
• Environmental Impact
• Local delivery vehicle CO2 emissions reduced by
  11.6 tonnes, a 37 reduction.
• Local delivery vehicle distance travelled reduced
  by 23,200 kms.
• Delivery routes controlled and kept away from
  problem congestion areas
• Noise impact of delivery vehicles reduced
• Re-use of existing assets, such as pallets and
  hoardings
• Social Impact
• Reduced storage on site thus reducing the risk of
  accidents
• Improved security
• Local employment

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The Option we do not have