Sustainable Rail UN SDG Brain Dump
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Sustainable Rail UN SDG Brain Dump
About:
Greening Infrastructure
Green Building Encyclopaedia
Greening Infrastructure
- in the context of UK Sustainable Rail & 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
1 No poverty
- No COVID pay reductions, maintain hours per week
- 37.5 hours/week is not Schedule D, not Self employment, it is employment
- PAYE, Guaranteed working week, Insurance included, Pension included
- 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
2 Zero Hunger
- Fairtrade drinks and food available via all franchises in station and on trains
- Time for food and drink
3 Good health and wellbeing
- Remind staff of H&W measures in place
- Healthy building materials, Good Indoor Air Quality, Good ventilation
- Overheating kitchens on trains, and in stations?
- 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
- Building Fabric: Green Guide to Specification
- SusStation Interreg Project completed 2012
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,
- Apprenticeships
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 in offices
- Avoid bottled water dispensers
- Retailed water in bottles
- Source from local bottled water springs
- Minimise water miles
- Provide free to use refill taps in all premises and trains
- 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 multi-head tap
- Avoiding excess water usage in premises
- 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
- Dispersed energy production
- Along track, close to track
- PVs along track and on trains
- Redundancy use which is available: wind, solar, mains, others
- PVs on roof or in grounds, or along tracks?
- 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
- Continue with Robust switch labelling to minimise unused kit left on
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
- Generate on-site renewables along tracks and in yards
- Feed in tariff to supply into infrastructure
- Internet of things
- Remotely controlled kit
- Intelligent kit that knows to be off if nobody present
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
- Joined up transport
- Make it really easy to use a bus not a taxi
- Increase Bicycles carried on trains and Busses
- 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
- Make use of railway lands to build commuter accommodation????
12 Responsible Consumption and Production
- Contracts that drive down waste
- Office Lighting controls: off when not in use
- Platform lighting controls: off when not in use
- 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
- Retail Furniture & Equipment
- Train fit out Furniture & Equipment
- Churn Storage
- Remanufacturing
13 Climate Action
Choice of materials
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- Choice of low carbon, low emissions materials
- Low LCA EPD materials
- number crunching of office and retail Interiors
- Reclaimed and reused Furniture
- Carbon sequestration
- Bio-based furniture
- Bio-based Construction choices
- Carbonation in manufacturing processes
- Aggregates
- Net gain Biodiversity not at the expense of the existing
- No clear felling
- No ignoring biodiversity
- No Ancient Forests felling
- No SSSI clearing
- No Wild life Loss
- Biodiversity Net gain but not at loss of existing mature biodiversity
- HS2 has failed miserably, criminally, probably contractually, unless the contract was bad or too lenient.
- But it is the UK Boris Government, so everything goes, no questions asked.
14 Life below water
- Plant based cleaning liquids
- Avoiding chemistry and hazardous liquids and other materials, everything
- Avoiding use of plastic 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 Institutions 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
- Join UKGBC Whole Life Carbon Roadmap project
- Only work with others that are aligned with your interpretations or developments of UN SDG
- Avoid working in silos
- Work Collaboratively
- Work with the local community to help them get what they need
- Demand and Supply chains that work well
- Avoiding Silo thinking
- Joined up contracts
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan
5th April 2021 For 8th April 2021 event
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
5th April 2021
See Also:
GBE Brain Dump
- Sustainable Rail UN SDG (Brain Dump) G#39377 (This page)
- Greening Office Biophilia (Brain Dump) G#39346
- Greening Offices UN SDG (Brain Dump) G#39342
- Greening Offices Post COVID (Brain Dump) G#39335
- 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 **
5th April 2021
