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GBE Future Facing Environmental Bathrooms BrainStorm
GBE Future Facing Environmental Bathrooms BrainStorm
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Future-facing Sustainable Bathrooms, Bathing and Sanitaryware
Design
- Chicane pathway with no inter-visibility entering and leaving public toilets
- No doors and no ironmongery for bacteria transfer
- Interior designers seem to be pushing for unisex communal toilets in offices
- Space saving seems to be the driver
- Socialising will probably consume more time
- But happier staff?
- Sequential layouts with some logic to the movement of people
- Time saving navigation and sequence of activities
- Wet-soap-dry machines in larger numbers or phased out in high demand toilets
- Need to keep customers flowing
- Will hand wash and drying taps over basins clog up the flow of people
- Architect designed vanity unit/basin tops banned!
- Avoid splash water flooding vanity top then dripping onto floors
- Architect designed vanity unit tops and taps tested together on full-flow, low-flow and drip-drip.
- Outward opening door to small cubicles (French approach) to reduce space needed
- Robust internally hooking ironmongery to give users confidence
- Consider Ska rating (Environmental Assessment Method) for fit-out and refit.
- More robust and comprehensive than BREEAM
Sanitaryware
- All water saving profiles/outlets
- Proximity actuated, water saving, flow regulated, aerated taps (except bath taps)
- No more tooth brushing with tap open long term
Proximity actuation (presence or departure)
- Proximity actuated low water flow sprinkler taps
- No-more percussion push-taps ever especially in pressurized multi-storey projects
- No more water hammer (for quiet Schools Universities Hospitals)
- Proximity actuated foaming soap dispensers
Baths
- Smart baths for water management
- Voice actuated and voice recognition
- Fills the bath for you
- Knows your temperature and depth preference(s) and lighting/music scenarios,
Showers
- Atomized mist showers
- 75% water saving
- Easy DIY fitting
- Standard threads for connecting
- 3 stage mineral-based water cleaning
- Mineral adding
- Aromatherapy addition
- https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cirrus-shower-revolutionary-uses-75-percent-less-water-design#/
Another mist shower
Water saving showers (even if rain showers)
- Smart showers for water management
- Voice actuated and voice recognition
- Knows your temperature preference, head settings, stops and starts water for you
- Audible
- “Wet, soap-up, rinse”
- Count down
- Controls with attitude
- lets you know when you’re consuming too much water
- or lingering too long
Urinals
- Effective visual privacy between urinals
- Elbow rests on urinal dividers in public houses! Somewhere to lean if drunk!
- Waterless smell-extracting urinals
- Visual privacy if urinals are part of communal unisex toilets (unlikely)
- Female urinals will probably never catch on except at music festivals
- Too many risks of wet clothes to consider them?
Rainwater harvesting
- Effective Wisy filters on down pipes
- To Flush toilets
- Clothes Washing Machine
Grey water harvesting
- From basins to flush toilets
- Australian basin on WC cistern
- Roca/Laufen model basin beside WC
- See 2009 Future bathrooms (right column)
- From baths to flush toilets
- In wall pre plumbed systems
- No energy intensive UV or chemical cleaning of water
- If you must, use Solar PV to run it
Fabric first refurbishments
- Whenever a bathroom is refurbished or refitted, use it as a trigger point for a proper job
- Decent Homes, privately, Insurance repairs, etc.
- All removed parts diverted from landfill for reuse or recycling
- Insulate the external walls, and all voids that are opened up, properly for before refitting
- So it does not have to be undone and then redone later (GreenDeal, ECO)
- Refit with access panels to minimize leak damage and avoid refits next time
- Insulate all hot and cold pipes everywhere not just the 1st meter from the cyclinder
Acoustics:
- No more noisy hand driers
- ‘Quiet mark’ promoted more widely
- Awarded to exceptionally quiet fast-air blower hand-driers
- Not just to the first company that asked to be assessed
- And not likely to be awarded to Dyson Airblade (whether they applied or not)
- Men not allowed to pee standing up in blocks of flats and hotels after 9pm
- Acoustic privacy in cubicles especially in unisex communal toilets
- Airtightness measures at all pipes through walls/floors/roofs/partitions/ceilings/in casings/ducts
Vitreous china
- Higher recycled content vitreous china:
- Resource efficiency
- Lower temperature baked vitreous china:
- low embodied energy and potentially low embodied carbon
Ironmongery:
- Reduced chemically intensive chromium plating to metalwork
- Anti-bacterial silver-plated flush handles/plates/buttons/knobs/taps etc.
Anti-bacterial coatings:
- Anti-bacterial silver-plated cubicle and door ironmongery on way out
- Anti-bacterial silver-plated flush handles/plates/buttons knobs, taps, etc.
- Anti-bacterial coated WC bowels: skid-mark-eating self-cleaning
- Anti-bacterial coated everything in Prisons, Hospital and Mental institutions
Sealants:
- Purpose-made profile single-piece rubber gasket water-tight seal to walls and floors:
- avoiding silicone sealant:
- easy reclaimable, cleanable, resalable and reusable china
Energy consumption
- Effective design hand driers down to 500 Watts and still effective in 10 seconds
- Fast air blower hand drying in preference to heat
- Enhanced Capital Allowance promoted widely
- Energy Technology List listed appliance adopted more widely
- Shower waste heat recovery transferred to shower hot water supply, fitted everywhere
- Insulated hot and cold pipes (everywhere including domestic)
Plumbing:
- Waterless smell-extracting urinals
- Move away from PVC to ABS in downpipes
- Move away from PVC to Polypropylene in waste pipes
- Airtightness/acoustic/fire/smoke/weather measures at all pipes through elements
- walls/floors/roofs/partitions/ceilings
- Flow regulating/isolating valves
- Insulated pipes everywhere
Electrical wiring
- Move away from PVC sheathing to Low Smoke Low Halogen LSLH
Water consumption
- Isolation/flow regulation valves on all appliances
- Set to low flow by default (CITB Skills training needed)
- Dual flush leak-free WC valves every time
- Leek-free mono-block swivel taps
- Enhanced Capital Allowance promoted widely
- Water Technology List listed appliance adopted more widely
Leak-Flood prevention
- Special valves to limit size of floods due to leaks, fitted on appliances:
- Washing machines
- Dish washers
- Water fountains
Easter and western WC habits will probably never merge for the majority
- Westerners with medical guidance may adopt squatting
- Western poo inspection platforms will never catch on in UK except in medical buildings perhaps
- Easterners catered for:
- Robust Toilet seats that will not break if not lifted and squatted upon (Seen in schools)
- Squatting profiled feet places on western sitting WC bowl?
- Truly rimless toilets (not smaller rims) with a ledge
- First seen by me in Belfast during their ‘troubles’
- Assumed to be designed ‘nowhere to hide explosives’
- Rimless toilets in Prison WCs
- No where to hide ‘miniature mobiles, drugs, sharps’
© GBE NBS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
24th August 2017 – 27th August 2017
GBE Future Facing Environmental Bathrooms BrainStorm
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Future facing Environmental Bathrooms
© GBE NBS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
24th August 2017 – 27th August 2017
GBE Future Facing Environmental Bathrooms BrainStorm
See Also:
GBE Brainstorm
GBE Issue Papers
GBE Jargon Buster
- Theme:
- Future facing Environmental Bathrooms
- This file as a Download
GBE CPD
- Topic (cut down version of this paper illustrated)
GBE Library
- List of related documents by authoritative bodies
GBE Links
GBE Products
Mist showers
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cirrus-shower-revolutionary-uses-75-percent-less-water-design#/
https://www.indiegogo.com/products/the-nebia-shower-system
© GBE NBS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
24th August 2017 – 27th August 2017
