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ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE STUDENTS

(Kingston Uni)

Barriers to Sustainability
Success Stories in Sustainability

Degree ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGISTS

(Sheffield Hallam Uni)

GreenSpec Website and its use in practice
GreenSpec specifications in use with NBS Building software
Review students project: Building study of a material and its specification, technical review.

MSc THEORY & PRACTICE OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

(Cardiff Uni)

Barriers to the implementation of sustainable development initiatives
Financial incentives – grants and other financial support
Employers requirements:
- Takes Brief and turns it into D&B Performance specification
- E.g. zero waste construction
Community Consultation & Participation
Sustainable site practice
- Waste minimization
- Waste Reduction by Design
- Waste Site Issues, On-site waste segregation
- Waste Best practice Tools
- Violet materials, Waste Definitions
- Waste Cost Savings & SMARTWaste
- Health and Safety
- Employment
- Cost benefits of sustainable site practice

Sustainable Specification

Procurement Methods and Diagrams
Specification Responsibility
Design to reduce Waste (2007/08)

The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Local Agenda 21
Sustainable Communities & Sustainable Development

Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE)

(University of Cambridge)

A part-time Masters Degree

20__

An introduction to GreenSpec

IDBE Conservation, Retrofit & Adaptation

23-29th March 2014

Construction Materials Workshop

ARCHITECTURE: PART 1 YEAR 2

(London South Bank Uni)

Air Movement in Building

Air movement in and around buildings: everything from tornadoes to air conditioning
(now 4 hours in 29 parts) Presented to Students and as CPD to practices
Sun and Daylight in and around buildings (being created now)

A90 Principles of Element Design
Climate Change
Wind & Wind Tunnel Testing
Wind Turbines
Natural Ventilation
Moisture Vapour & Condensation
P10 Thermal Insulation
Breathing Construction
P14 Wind & Air tightness
A94 Wind & Air tightness Testing
Building Elements
Passive & Active Ventilation
Stack Effect
Atrium
Solar Orientation, Solar Gain & B12 Conservatories
Thermal mass
Conduction, Convection, Radiation
L15 Solar Shading
Thermal mass, Passive and active cooling
Fluid dynamics
Mechanical Ventilation
Air-Conditioning
Questions and Answers

RIBA Part 1 Technology & Environment 2

Delivered to Full time year 2 and Part time year 3

Speed dating, getting to know the students and starting CVs
Setting agenda for 12 weeks
Global Imperative
A90 Principles of Element Design
Path to the Future
Sustainability Definitions

12 lecture/workshop series:
Materials, Construction & Services:
Domestic and small buildings:

Building Elements

(11) Ground: Site Survey, Soil Investigation, Site Clearance, Topsoil, Subsoil, Soil Stabilisation, Consolidation, Soil Remediation
F132 Basements
(13.1) Ground floor, Insulation, Inter-seasonal Thermal storage, DPM, GPM, below ground services.
(16.4) Groundworks & Reinforced Concrete Raft Foundations (site vist)
(16.4) Foundation types, Eco-concrete, Rock piling, Buried buildings, Floating buildings,
(21) External Walls: Timber, LTF Light timber frame,
(21) External Walls: Masonry
(21) External Walls: others
(21.4) External Walls: Glass
JH11 Curtain Walling G#295 N#296
JH13 Structural Glass Assemblies
(22) Internal partitions
(23) Upper floors
(27.1) Flat roofs
(27.2) Pitched Roofs
Green Roofs
B571 Environmental Impact Assessment

Homework: create and present PowerPoint files:

7 Bullet Point CV
Introduction to a website with an environmental flavour
Jargon Busting 1 present a word or phrase with explanation
An aesthetic material: properties and characteristics to use in studio work
Sketching the material in an assembly sequence to make a room or building
Jargon Busting 2 Energy
Waste: apply a known material to a studio project and see how much waste is generated, can any be reused?
Biodiversity: see how nature can be included in your current studio project
Thumbnail sketches: of the building sequence of your studio project
Students educate Students: homework presentations, review and score/moderation

ARCHITECTURE: PART 2 YEAR 1

Short Lecture series with Mike Kane

1 Overview/Introduction to course Mike Kane
2 Targets, Regulations & Codes by BrianSpecMan
3 Design: Resource efficiency by BrianSpecMan
4 Air Movement in Building by BrianSpecMan
5 Renewable Energy & Efficiency by Mike Kane/BrianSpecMan
6 Examples: case studies/precedents Mike Kane
7 Green Specification by BrianSpecMan
8 Future of Sustainability by BrianSpecMan

2012 & 2013 & 2014

Global Imperative

Consequences

Urban Heal Island Effect

JuFu Julie Futcher

Resource Efficiency

Resource Efficient Design: Handout 9 slides/page B&W Text only
Design to Reduce waste

Energy Conservation, Insulation Passive Design: Solar & Ventilation

Air Movement in Building series extracts
Zero Carbon Developments Passive Design

Embodied & In use Energy & Carbon

Jargon Buster CO2
Embodied Energy & Embodied Carbon Calculator
Floor areas & U values to Energy Demand & % per element to Fuel Choice and CO2 emissions calculator
Elemental Calculator

GBE Calculators

Developed to enable the students to calculate their own projects

Embodied Carbon and Embodied Energy calculator
- using ICE database & other sources (explaining strengths and weaknesses)
- Rationalised 1 ICE column into 3 to enable calculations
- Floor areas
- Element and component thicknesses or sections
- Volumes
- Embodied carbon
- Embodied energy
Areas & U values to Energy demand & fuel carbon
- Floor, wall, roof, doors and windows areas
- U values
- Energy demands
- Fuel choices
- Carbon Calculator
- Highlights the importance of high performance windows and doors
Elemental Assembly Component contribution
- Assembly exploded
- Component materials and thicknesses
- Quantities per area
- Embodied Energy and Embodied carbon
- Relative % of components: discredits the BRE Green Guide Approach

Training Module: Green Specification

New build and refurbishment
Product Selection
Process: Initial design through to waste and recycling
Source of environmental requirements:
Requirements must be explicitly included in specification or they will not be tendered for and not get built
Any work:
Client’s Brief (GC) or Employer’s Requirements (D&B)
T&C Planning national, regional and local requirements
Building Regulations (when they catch up with CfSH, etc,) Approved Documents and Tertiary Documents
EU Procurement Rules WTO Procurement Rules
Any other legislation:
SWMP,
New Build
Environmental Assessment Methods
EcoHomes or Code for Sustainable Homes
BREEAM (non-domestic) building type specific and Bespoke
Others: DREAM, LEED, NEAT, CEEQUAL,
Refurbishment:
EcoHomes XB
Decent Homes Programme
Specification Library
NBS & Greening of NBS and Greening of NES reports
NGS Green Building Specification
Advisory Organisations
CIRIA: (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems)
EST: (Details) CLP: (future)
Building Regulations Accredited Construction Details Part L & Robust details Part E
BRE: Environmental Profiling, Green Guide to Specification, relationship to BREEAM, CfSH, EcoHomes, ISO 14025
Knowledge outside of the mainstream UK construction industry
AECB & CarbonLite Programme
Passivhaus Programme (European)
Green Products labels,
OPP, EcoFlower, BlueSwan, NaturePlus, CD2E, Passivhaus, etc.
Normal Issues
Performance, Durability, Quality (QA), Proper materials, certification, testing, etc.
Environmental issues (its not just about energy)
Environmental Management of manufacturers, ISO 14001, EMAS,
Embodied energy in manufacture, energy efficiency in use, embodied energy in waste
Insulation, airtightness, cold bridge elimination, thermal mass, thermal lag
Ventilation without heat loss, heat recovery, renewable energy and renewable readiness
Avoidance of condensation, Moisture mass, Hygroscopicity,
Resource Efficiency
Materials, Water, Fuel: Heating, Cooling and water
Design to reduce Waste, Fixings, Assembly, Deconstruction, Reclamation, Reuse or Recycling
Social Issues
Healthy materials in manufacture, application, occupation, repair, refurbishing, deconstruction and disposal
Moisture mass, low allergy, non-toxic,
Natural materials, non-petrochemical, low VOC, PVC-free renewable and rapidly renewable materials
Recycled content, recyclable, reclaimable, reusable,
Local procurement
Legal and sustainable: Stewardship: FSC timber, Stone stewardship and metal stewardship
Environmental characteristics
Thermal mass, Decrement, Hygroscopicity, moisture mass, Psi values,
Materials
Earth
Rammed earth, Unfired clay, clay finishes, clay coatings
Plant based
Hemp, timber, cellulose, cotton, straw, Linseed,
Recycled and by-product
Sheep’s wool, denim (recycled),
Aggregates, secondary aggregates, recycled aggregates, recycled concrete aggregates
Plastics, de-sulferisation gypsum, glass, paper/cardboard, green-waste, metals, timber
Construction Reclaimed
Bricks, stone, timber, steel, ironmongery
Architectural salvage
Stone, timber, stain glass, furniture,
Carbon reduction, Carbon Sequestration, Low carbon and Carbon negative buildings
Cement replacement, Lime, GGBS cement, PFA cements; timber construction, Hemp-lime construction
Specification and substitution
Robust specification v generic
Performance v prescriptive
Declaration of Conformity
Equivalency and Approval: Architect first time, Contractor evidence second time
Case Law & Project Feedback