Greening Offices UN SDG Brain Dump
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Greening Offices UN SDG Brain Dump
About:
Greening Your Office or Greening your Business
- in the context of UK Architectural, Interior Design Practice Post-COVID
Legislative Context:
- Health & Safety at Work Act
- Employee Right Act Section 44
- The Good Work Plan launched 6th April 2020
- Your Standards > Your Expectations > Policy > Procedure
- Fix the roof whilst the sun shines
UN SDG United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
1 No poverty
- No COVID pay reductions, maintain hours per week
- 37.5 hours/week is not Schedule D, Self employment, it is employment
- PAYE, Guaranteed working week, Insurance included, Pension included
- Paying off student loan needs a sector reflective salary appropriate for job done
- Contracted hours to reflect ‘expected hours’, ‘is it in my job description?”
- Pay for all overtime
- Unpaid overtime only helps pay for the partners salary, cars, homes, lifestyle, retirement, pensions
- Unpaid overtime kills staff moral, and little hope of paying off student loans quickly
- High risk of mental stress, are you equipped for that?
- Keep records of overtime and your actual hours, calculate actual hourly rate does not fall below national living wage: minimum £8.91/hour
- Overtime should be paid for, to keep the staff and business effective
- Enable staff to gladly do overtime when offered
- Payment and/or time off in lieu of overtime
- Unionising of the profession is happening, campaigning for fair terms of employment and expectation
- Future RIBA standards, recording all unpaid overtime, declaring unpaid overtime, stop unpaid overtime
2 Zero Hunger
- Fairtrade drinks and food
- Time for food and drink
- Feed your overtime team
- Occasional celebration cakes and Friday wind-down drink
3 Good health and wellbeing
- Remind staff of H&W measures in place
- Healthy building materials, Good Indoor Air Quality, Good ventilation
- Good healthy interior finishes and furniture specification
- Good Lighting quality, task specific lighting, lighting nutrition,
- Limit sunlight glare, limit sunlight overheating, maintain good daylight and provide views
- Monitor clarity, glare-free, reflection free, colour saturation, contrasts,
- Stress free work, Biophilia in interiors
- Normal hours allow staff to have a rich and fulfilling well rounded life and remain a productive member of staff
- Stress free working week
- Expect staff to follow 37.5 hour week
- Work-life balance
- Insurance encouraged health and wellbeing
- Encourage recreation engagement
- Encouraging walking, running or cycling to work
- Avoiding use of lifts, use the stairs
- Smoking cease-ation programme
- Reduction in alcoholism
- Loss of Drug and Alcoholism monitoring
- Work at/from Home
- COVID-Secure readiness See later
- Returning to Office Working
- COVID-Secure readiness See later
- Health & Wellbeing design standards
- WELL
- Fitwell
- Ska Fit-out and refit Environmental Assessment Method
- BREEAM Environmental Assessment Method
4 Quality Education
- Support Education Declare campaign
- Do not allow Universities to expect free lectures and studio
- Reflect the UN SDG, Reflect the Environment and Biodiversity Crisis, Reflect the state of the industry, Reflect the job,
- RIBA Syllabus upgrade, Assessment of Schools, based on what they do not what they say, not just aesthetics, Philosophical BS and snappy graphics.
- In Office training, not just RIBA accredited CPD
- Practices to demand better from RIBA Syllabus and Education
5 Gender Equality
- Equal pay for equal job
- Equal opportunities in business hierarchy
- Flexible hours for all
- Provide appropriate facilities/services
6 Clean Water and Sanitation
- By default? From mains supply
- Avoiding bottled water
- Avoid bottled water dispensers
- Multi-source taps
- Chilled water on tap
- Hot water on tap
- Boiled water on tap
- Filtered water on tap
- Softened water on tap
- Proximity detection tap
- Avoiding excess water usage
- Low basin flow taps
- Low Dual Flush WC
- Low flow cyclist showers with waste heat recycling
- Proximity/voice actuation taps/flush
7 Affordable and Clean Energy
- 100% Green tariff, generated off site, delivered via mains
- PVs on roof or in grounds?
- Inverters waste energy and generate heat to make AC electricity
- Low voltage DC circuit for ITC before exporting to mains
- New low voltage cables to kit
8 Decent Work and Economic growth
- Decent Work (See 1 Poverty)
- Engaging with Environmental and Biodiversity Emergency/Crisis
- Positive work supporting wellbeing
- Economic Growth (within 1 planet boundary)
- Growth but not at the expense of others
- UK growth on one planet means somebody else has to shrink
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Adopt MMC only if it offers complete competency to meet the whole performance necessity
- Stay up to date with developments in all areas
- Strive to be up to date
- Adopt latest tech as long as it improves stuff
- Encourage Innovation within business
- Choose to support Offsite renewables to enable them to invest in more
- Green tariff electrical supply
- Feed in tariff to supply into infrastructure
10 Reduced Inequalities
- (See 5 Gender Equality)
- The right project briefs
- Doing the right things for communities not just profits for developers
- No re-gentrification at the expense of local community
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Sustainable Outputs not Sustainable Business
- The right clients
- The right projects
- The right interactions
- Respect for the context
- No re-gentrification at the expense of local community
12 Responsible Consumption and Production
- Specification choices
- Responsible Sourcing
- Chain of custody
- Low chemistry, energy, plastics, Petro-chemical, hydro-carbon, synthetic materials
- Low intensity manufacturing
- Design Choices
- Resource Efficiency, minimal waste
- Design for manufacturing, assembly, adaptation, disassembly, reclaim, storage, reassembly
- Office Furniture & Equipment
13 Climate Action
Choice of materials
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- Choice of low carbon, low emissions materials
- Low LCA EPD materials
- number crunching of Interiors
- Reclaimed and reused Furniture
- Carbon sequestration
- Bio-based furniture
- Bio-based Construction choices
- Carbonation in manufacturing processes
- Net gain Biodiversity not at the expense of the existing
- No clear felling
- No ignoring biodiversity
14 Life below water
- Plant based cleaning liquids
- Avoiding use of plastic and chemistry and hazardous materials everything
- Minimise plastics and other packaging
- Waste segregation to avoid plastics entering waste streams
- Avoidance of plastics in Specification
- Design to reduce off-cutting
- Avoidance of cutting plastics with saw and hot wire
- Purposeful cleaning up of plastic sawdust
- Look after the existing and improve biodiversity
- Compatible material choices
15 Life on land (and in the air)
- Avoiding use of plastic and chemistry and hazardous materials everything
- Minimise plastics and other packaging
- Waste segregation to avoid plastics entering waste streams
- Avoidance of plastics in Specification
- Design to reduce off-cutting
- Avoidance of cutting plastics with saw and hot wire
- Purposeful cleaning up of plastic sawdust
- Look after the existing and improve ‘Net gain’ biodiversity
16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- (See 4 Quality Education)
- Drive RIBA to do better in every way
- Strive for better competent test and accreditation houses
- Do your own Due Diligence on product certification
17 Partnerships for Goals
- Only work with others that are aligned with your versions of UN SDG
- Avoid working in silos
- Work Collaboratively
- Work with the local community to help them get what they need
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
31st March 2021 – 2nd April 2021
Greening Offices UN SDG Brain Dump
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© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan
31st March 2021 – 2nd April 2021
Greening Offices UN SDG Brain Dump
See Also:
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- Building Performance Aspects (Brain Dump) G#21255
- Blockchain Timber Chain of Custody (Brain Dump) G#20312
- Landscape Resource Efficiency (Brain Dump) G#643 N#665
- Product Data Golden Thread (Brain Dump) G#39241
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
31st March 2021 – 2nd April 2021
