A12 The Site/Existing Buildings
Checklist:
Consider:
- Reuse existing building, rather than demolish
- Deconstruct the existing buildings in place of demolishing them
- Reclaim existing materials
- Reuse existing materials
- Demolition Protocol will require a statement of intent to reuse materials from existing buildings before demolition of the buildings are permitted
Avoid:
- Demolishing existing buildings without considering if the whole buildings could be reused.
- Demolishing existing buildings without considering what materials could be reused.
- See Demolition Protocol.
Biodiversity:
- Avoid disturbing all protected species
Minimise:
Substitute:
Resource Efficiency:
Reduce:
Reclaim:
Reuse:
Recycle:
Recycling:
- Collect, segregate, reuse or recycle all redundant material.
Recover:
Waste Issues:
Waste Category:
Hazardous waste:
Waste statistics:
End of life options:
Health and Safety Issues:
Wellbeing:
Maintenance issue:
Precautionary principle:
Biodiversity:
- Avoid cutting down rain forest to make paper,
- use FSC, UKWAS or Grown In Britain certified plantation tree based paper or recycled paper
Information sources:
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4th December 2014 – 17th November 2018
A12 The Site/Existing Buildings
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A12 The Site/Existing Buildings
See Also:
NGS CHECKLIST
- C20 Demolition
NGS CPD
NGS JARGON BUSTER
Initials, Abbreviations, Acronyms
- WRAP
Names and phrases
- Demolition Protocol
- PreAlteration Audit
- PreDemolition Audit
- Reclamation Protocol
NGS PROJECTS
- Demolition Protocol
NGS SPECIFICATIONS
GreenBuildingSpecification
NGS LIBRARY
NGS MANUFACTURERS
NGS PRODUCTS
NGS SYSTEMS
NGS ROBUST SPECIFICATION
NGS LINKS
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