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0 Metadata:

  • No CPD file yet just this page
  • Pages: G#41846
  • Classification:
  • CI/SfB:
    • Facilities:
    • Elements:
    • Construction forms:
    • Materials:
  • CAWS:
  • CAWS 2012:
  • NGS CAWS+:
  • CSI:
  • Uniclass 1 1997:
  • Uniclass 2: 2012:
  • NBS Uniclass + Clause tagging List 2017:
  • Uniclass 2: 2015:
  • Tags: (describe the content of a specific post or article, usually generated automatically by software)
  • Keywords: (are used to identify the topics covered by a website or blog, are chosen by the site owner or author)
  • Categories: (help to structure website sitemap)
  • Elements: Whole Projects.

1 Issues:

2 Consider:

  • Substitute:
  • Value Engineer:
  • Minimise:
  • Avoid:

3 Health:

  • Environmental:
  • Wellbeing:
  • Biophilia:
  • Biodiversity:
  • Safety:
  • Precautionary principle:  

4 Resourceful:

  • Resource Efficiency Issues:
  • Waste Statistics:
  • Industry/Sector/Company Initiatives:
  • Reduce:
  • Recover:
  • Reclaim:
  • Reclaimed Materials Passport:
  • Remanufacturer:
  • Recycle:
  • Make Available for Recycling:
  • Reuse:
  • Reassembly:

5 Install/Use/Maintenance

  • Install:
  • In use Issues:
  • Maintenance:
  • Design Life:
  • Failure Modes:

6 Waste Issues:

  • Waste Categories:
  • Hazardous waste:
  • Deleterious Substances:
  • Waste management:
  • Waste statistics:
  • Waste minimisation:
  • European Waste Catalogue:
  • European Waste Catalogue: Number order:

7 End of Life Options:

  • End of First Life:
  • Deconstruction:
  • Demount ability:
  • Soft Strip:
  • Reclaim:
  • Reclaimed Materials Passport:
  • Remanufacture:
  • Recycle:
  • Make available for Reuse:
  • Reuse:
  • Reassembly:
  • Method Statement:

8 Jargon Buster:

9 Checklist:

Your route to Project Success

Survey

  • Site investigation
  • Desk top inspection
  • Historic Maps
  • Planning Records, Listed Building List
  • Building Regulation Records

Development control: Planning

  • Any obligations
  • Any restrictions
  • Keep records and pass batten to designer

Educating yourself

  • Environmental Issues
  • Building Physics
  • Construction options
  • Material choices
  • Number crunching
  • Don’t believe everything you are told
  • Do your own joined up thinking
  • Ask an Expert for second opinion

Selecting your designer

  • Find designer that matches your aspirations: Green or Violet?
    • Green
      • Green Register of Construction Professionals
      • Association of Environment Conscious Building
      • Passivhaus Accredited designer
      • EnerPHit Accredited designer
      • SPAB (Historic Conservation Designer)
      • ACAN Architects Climate Action network
      • Architects Declare
    • Violet (usually but not always, getting better):
      • RIBA Architect
      • CIAT Technician
      • RICS Surveyor

Briefing process

  • Clients are not good at doing this for first or only time
  • Architects are not good at doing this, after many clients
  • Architects need to be stop complaining clients are bad at briefing and engage with process
  • Inform and invite
  • Interior designers: are they any better? Not sure

Set your budget

  • Essential to help the design process
  • Your Ambition
  • Absolute limit
  • Upfront costs
  • In use costs
  • Get your designer’s commitment to work to them and emphasise your reliance upon them

Prioritise your ambitions:

  • critical, essential, desirable,
  • nice to have, don’t mind if we don’t
  • Agree client and designers priorities: Planetary boundaries, Competency
  • Set targets: Regulations, Design Standards, Campaigns
  • Decide on critical issues: Energy efficiency, minimising carbon, indoor healthy conditions
  • Decide any other issues: Resourcefulness, Appropriate, Effectiveness

Manufacturers and Suppliers

  • Costs
  • Competency: ‘Proper materials’ kitemark and BBA Agrement Certificate
  • Availability
  • Appropriate Application, approved installers or self-builders
  • Guarantees, Warranties and limitations
  • Regulation Competency
  • Manufacturers Recommendation

Installers

  • Manufacturer Approved
  • Green or Violet Installers
  • Costs

Design review

  • Understand what you are being offered
  • Does it meet your brief? All of it?

Understand plans if you can,

  • if not what are alternatives?
  • Sectional Perspectives, 3D view
  • Models
  • Computer walk- or fly-through

Development control: Regulations

  • Competency

Samples review

  • Do make use of them
  • Small samples might not reflect variability in natural materials
  • Decide materials, colours, gloss level, textures, translucency, etc
  • Be aware samples don’t always reflect installation

Sign off and ring fence design

  • Or be prepared to pay over odds for changes from now onwards
  • Be responsible for waste due to late decisions

Selecting your constructor

  • Find constructor that matches your aspirations: Green Or Violet?
  • Green or violet pricing
  • The Green Register of Construction Professionals
  • Association of Environment Conscious Building
  • Passivhaus experienced constructor
  • EnerPHit experienced constructor
  • SPAB (Historic Conservation constructor)

10 CPD/Lectures:

11 Case Studies:

12 Projects:

13 Calculators:

14 Products:

15 Accessories:

16 Systems:

17 Images:

  • CPD:
    • CPD Covers:
    • CPD Slides:
    • CPD Shows:
    • CPD Handouts:
    • Others CPD:

    GBE Images:

    • Icons:
    • Logos:
    • Pinterest:

    Videos:

18 All:

  • See also: GBE Checklists

19 HERACEY™:

  • Healthy:
  • Environmental:
  • Resourceful:
  • Appropriateness:
  • Competence:
  • Effectiveness:
  • Yardstick:

20 RIBA Stages

  • 0 Strategic Definition
  • 1 Preparation & Brief
  • 2 Concept Design
  • 3 Developed Design
  • 4 Technical Design
  • 5 Construction
  • 6 Hand over and Close out
  • 7 In use
  • 8 Repurpose
  • 9 Reclaim and Reuse

21 Information sources:

22 Slogan:

23 #Hashtag:

24 Sustainable Development Goals

  • The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
  • The 17 SDGs are integrated—they recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must balance social, economic and environmental sustainability.
  • Countries have committed to prioritize progress for those who’re furthest behind. The SDGs are designed to end poverty, hunger, AIDS, and discrimination against women and girls.
  • The creativity, knowhow, technology and financial resources from all of society is necessary to achieve the SDGs in every context.

SDG 1 No Poverty

SDG 2 Zero Hunger

SDG 3 Good Health And Well-Being

  • See SDG 15

SDG 4 Quality Education

SDG 5 Gender Equality

SDG 6 Clean Water And Sanitation

  • See SDG 14

SDG 7 Affordable And Clean Energy

SDG 8 Decent Work And Economic Growth

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities And Communities

  • See SDG10 above

SDG 12 Responsible Consumption And Production

SDG 13 Climate Action

SDG 14 Life Below Water

  • See SDG 6

SDG 15 Life On Land

  • See SDG 3

SDG 16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

SDG 17 Partnerships For The Goals

25 Value for Money

Violet Prices

Green Prices

Cost planning

Elemental rates

Trade rates

Cost cutting

Value Engineering

Multi functional

Performance Gap

Pay back periods

Carbon back periods

© GBE GBC GRC GIC GGC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan ******
9th May 2024 – 110th May 2024

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17 Images:

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CPD:

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Construction Resources Showroom Supplier and Designer meetings

CPD Handouts:

Other’s CPD:

Lectures:

Lectures Covers:

Lectures Slides:

Lectures Shows:

Lectures Handouts:

Other’s Lectures:

Icons:

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Navigation Icons Uniclass:

Logos:

Pinterest:

Videos:

Labels:

Green Labels:

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Health Labels:

Water Labels:

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© GBE GBC GRC GIC GGC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan ******
9th May 2024 – 10th May 2024

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  • Calculators (Navigation) G#600 N#621
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  • CAD (Navigation) G#702 N#724
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© GBE GBC GRC GIC GGC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan ******
9th May 2024 – 10th May 2024

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