Skip to main content
search

Design Team response to Brief (Information) G#15059

By 4 February 2017December 1st, 2023Briefing, Design, Encyclopaedia, Feasibility

Design Team response to Brief Information

GBE > Encyclopaedia > Design > Brief > G#15059

About:


Existing Guidance:

Energy efficiency best practice programme
  • GPG 304 The Purchaser’s guide to energy efficient buildings for industry
    • Helps the development of the Client’s Brief with the questions that need to be asked to the design team.
    • November 2000
  • GPG 303 The Designer’s guide to energy efficient buildings for industry
    • Helps drive the design team by answering how to satisfy the questions in the Design Brief
    • December 2000

GBE Comment:

  • These two documents only address a small segment of Green Issues: in this case Energy
  • You could argue that Energy is a business efficiency issues, not a green issue, but business is not always intelligent, and QS distract them
  • The approach set out in these two documents could be applied to the whole Green Agenda
  • Published in 2001 they were well ahead of mainstream engagement with Green issues
  • Competent buildings was never on the agenda, today we know about the ‘Performance gap’ even if we have not fully understood it nor addressed it adequately.
  • Today we are becoming more aware of passive design, thermal insulation, airtightness, indoor air quality, thermal bridge free design, thermal mass, decrement delay, appropriate materials for performance, we still have not mastered these since we have 20% of housing overheating and the Performance Gap persists.

© GBE GBC GRC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan ****
4th April 2015 – 1st December  2023

See Also:


GBE Classification

CI/SfB

  • CI/SfB Table 4
  • (A) Administration, Management Activities, Aids
  • (A3) Designing, Physical planning
  • (A3r) Brief, Instructions from Client, ascertaining client’s requirements, user requirement studies, activity data method

GBE Information

Energy efficiency best practice programme (EEBPP)


GBE Links

GPG 303 – CIBSE

www.cibse.org/…/GPG303-The-Designers-Guide-to-Energy-efficient-Buildings-for-I…

GPG 303. The designer’s guide to energy-efficient buildings for industry. ENERGY EFFICIENCY BEST PRACTICE PROGRAMME


The designers guide to energy efficient buildings for industry (GPG 303)

www.building.co.uk/the-designers-guide-to-energy…(gpg303)/1004750.article

6 Mar 2001 – This is intended to be used in conjunction with GPG 303 and provides purchasers with a systematic approach to be used with designers and …


Carbon Trust GPG Good Practice Guides

www.carbontrust.com/resources/faqs/technology-and-energy…/good-practice-guides/

The Carbon Trust Good Practice Guides (identified by publication code GPG) have been updated to ensure that energy efficiency and technology advice is …


© GBE GBC GRC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan ****
4th April 2015 – 1st December  2023

Design Team response to Brief (Information) G#15059 End.

Leave a Reply

Close Menu