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GBE Sustainable Kitchens (Checklist) G#41799

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GBE Sustainable Kitchens Checklist

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0 Metadata:

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:

GBE Sustainable Kitchens (Checklist)

N11      Domestic Kitchen Fittings Checklist

Sustainable Kitchen

Carcass – framing are traditional methods used in kitchen furniture

Fixings and fasteners – Screws, bolts, clamps, dowels – make simpler assembly – Nails and adhesives make disassembly for reclaim and for reuse difficult – Adhesives be unhealthy and off-gas causing poor indoor air quality – Adhesive free jointing and joining is ideal.

Drawers – Some plastics are available to make up drawers – Metal draw slide tracks may be coated mild steel or stainless steel

Door and Drawer Fronts – Hardwood is likely to be healthiest option-but not always.

Replace fronts?: Throwing away the current fronts?  Reclaim and reuse service needed.

Fronts – hardwood veneer, linoleum or leather – bond to timber-based boards – Linoleum healthier option with natural ingredients it still off gasses linseed oil.

Worktops and splashbacks – Hardwood, plywood will be absorbent may be easy to stain – Natural stone, easily stained; sealed natural stone – Glass, laminated glass – Ceramic tile, quarry tiles, porcelain tile, natural stone tile with flush joints to make cleaning easy – Resin, with a variety if aggregates, resin consists of chemistry or plastics and may off-gas – Polished concrete with a variety of virgin or recycled aggregates: High embodied carbon – Polished terrazzo: High embodied carbon?

Avoid

  • Illegal, unsustainably managed, no chain of custody, forest timber
  • Indonesian Hardwood: Most is illegally logged, destroys forests, communities and habitation
  • Urea formaldehyde in all timber-based boards: MDF, Chipboard, Plywood

Antibacterial surfaces

  • Application: sink, drainer, taps, ironmongery, work surfaces, carcass and fronts
  • Metals or coatings can provide hygienic surfaces without need for cleaning, washing and associated chemistry
  • Silver is best, copper is next and stainless steel last
  • But copper can develop copper oxides and can become too effective and can kill too much bacteria or later in drainage and sewerage system
  • Coatings and surface materials impregnations can provide same properties

Moisture management in surface finishes

  • Use of moisture absorbent or hygroscopic materials in ceiling and walls can manage some of excess moisture vapour by absorbing moisture at times of excess, hold it safely and release it when conditions improve
  • Lime plaster or clay plaster and clay finishes or hygroscopic insulation materials including plant based materials, cork, hemp, etc.
  • See Also M20 and M60 GBE Checklists

Consider

  • Domestic Kitchens
  • We regularly recommend choosing bespoke kitchen makers over mass produced kitchen manufacturers
  • We can now recommend choosing bespoke healthy kitchen makers who adopt low chemistry and adhesive free carcass assembly and healthy materials and finishes
  • https://kitecreative.co.uk

Carcass

  • Options include
  • Reclaimed or FSC certified, plantation sourced, with chain of custody hardwood or softwood framing are traditional methods used in kitchen furniture and there is no need for preservative treatment internally, so they are healthy options
  • Over past decades competition in kitchen furniture sector has driven manufacturers to find cheaper ways to make them, we have seen extensive use of timber-based boards used for solid panel kitchen furniture carcass and for a while fronts as well
  • Plywood, chipboard or particle board, medium density fibreboard (MDF), oriented strand board (OSB) and coated MDF are some of options, each with a variety of different timber species, binders, adhesives and durability
  • Plywood has layers of hard or softwood veneer bonded together with each layer at right angles to each other, first layer of adhesive is buried below first veneer so appears to be healthier option; all other options bring adhesives or binders to surface where off gassing into indoor air, potentially healthier
  • See Also: Z10 below

Fixings and fasteners

  • Screws, bolts, clamps, dowels can make simpler assembly
  • Nails and adhesives can make disassembly for reclaim and for reuse difficult
  • Adhesives can be unhealthy and off-gas causing poor indoor air quality
  • Adhesive free jointing and joining is ideal
  • See Also: Z20 below

Drawers

  • Options include
  • Plywood, chipboard or particle board, medium density fibreboard (MDF), oriented strand board (OSB) and coated MDF are some of options, each with a variety of different timber species, binders, adhesives and durability
  • Some plastics are available to make up drawers
  • Metal draw slide tracks may be coated mild steel or stainless steel

Door and Drawer Fronts

  • Options include
  • Hardwood, Plywood, Chipboard or particle board, medium density fibreboard (MDF), oriented strand board (OSB) and coated MDF are some of options, each with a variety of different timber species, binders, adhesives and durability’s
  • Hardwood is likely to be healthiest option
  • Plywood has layers of hard or softwood veneer bonded together with each layer at right angles to each other, first layer of adhesive is buried below first veneer so appears to be healthier option; all other options bring adhesives or binders to surface where off gassing into indoor air, potentially healthier

Fronts:

  • Options include
  • Painted or stained timber-based boards, coated MDF, plastic laminate, hardwood veneer, linoleum or leather are some of options to bond to timber-based boards
  • Linoleum appears to be healthier option but even with natural ingredients it still off gasses linseed oil which is pleasant enough

Worktops and splashbacks

  • Options include
  • Hardwood, plywood but these will be absorbent may be easy to stain
  • Plastic laminate faced chipboard or particle board
  • Natural stone, easily stained; sealed natural stone
  • Glass, laminated glass
  • Ceramic tile, quarry tiles, porcelain tile, natural stone tile with flush joints to make cleaning easy
  • Resin, with a variety if aggregates, resin consists of chemistry or plastics and may off-gas
  • Polished concrete with a variety of virgin or recycled aggregates: High embodied carbon
  • Polished terrazzo: High embodied carbon?

Floor finishes

  • Options include
  • Hardwood, plywood but these will be absorbent may be easy to stain
  • Natural stone, easily stained; sealed natural stone
  • Ceramic tile, quarry tiles, porcelain tile, natural stone tile with flush joints to make cleaning easy
  • Resin, with a variety if aggregates, resin consists of chemistry or plastics and may off-gas
  • Polished concrete with a variety of virgin or recycled aggregates: High embodied carbon
  • Polished terrazzo: High embodied carbon?

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18 All:

  • See also: GBE Checklists

19 HERACEY™:

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

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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

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