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HHP Hockerton Housing Project Inside Indoor Out door Sun Space showing shading and exposed thermal mass, windows to warm cave

GBE Healthy Home Checklist

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0 Metadata:

  • Not a CPD file just this page
  • Check CPD list in right column

1 Issues:

2 Consider:

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

3 Health:

  • Environmental:
  • Wellbeing:
  • Biophilia:
  • Biodiversity:
  • Safety:
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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

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6 Waste Issues:

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  • Waste management:
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  • Waste minimisation:
  • European Waste Catalogue:
  • European Waste Catalogue: Number order:

7 End of Life Options:

  • End of First Life:
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  • Reclaim:
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THE HEALTHY HOME: HOW TO CREATE HOMES TO OPTIMISE HEALTH

See Also: GBE CPD Are you Green Or Violet?

Green is Healthy Environmental Resourceful Appropriate, Competent, Effective, Yardstick construction (HERACEY™)

Violet is business as usual (BAU) construction using cement, plastics, metals, chemistry

  • High chemistry and petro-chemical materials, adhesives and protective and decorative finishes can off-gas chemicals into indoor air making them unhealthy places to live
  • Its not just building materials but also finishes and furniture that we need to be concerned about
  • Some hypersensitive people are unable to re-enter their buildings after sprayed insulation is applied in their roofs
  • Our societal and cultural preoccupation with cheapness means manufacturers resort to cheaper materials with wrong properties and add chemistry to compensate for lost properties
  • Chemistry can be included to modify or reclaim short term or long-term performances; examples: blowing agents to foam a plastic, chemistry add fire protection; moisture, mould and rot resistance, durability, add loft to insulation

Natural fibre, animal, plant or timber and stone based materials have some of these properties naturally

  • It is easy to choose BAU options because it’s what is on offer in all retailer and suppliers
  • Its more challenging to find greener options available from exceptional and specialist retailers and suppliers
  • Increasingly customers who have come through behaviour change are beginning to ask for healthier and environmental and socially responsible options
  • It can be challenging for both clients, self-builders and designers to find healthy and environmental options, like food labelling we need accessible, better and easily understood material information
  • We do not need greenwashing to confuse our choices

There are several databases and green labels out there to help us filter out violet and focus on green

  • Salvo (gateway to 100 Architectural Salvage websites, pre-chemistry era materials)
  • Natureplus (Competent, healthy and environmental) (Germany, Austria, Belgium)
  • Low allergy
  • Low noise
  • Firstplanit (ESG Environmental Social & Governance)
  • GreenPro (Environmental)
  • Green Building Encyclopaedia (HERACEY™)
  • GreenSpec
  • Declare (Healthy)
  • Green Book Live (BRE Green, includes high chemistry)
  • GreenLeaf (USA Green, includes high chemistry)
  • Blue Angel
  • EU Ecolabel
  • Cradle to Cradle (C2C)
  • IBO (Austria) (natureplus green)
  • VIBE (Belgium)
  • Agrodome (Holland)
  • CD2E (France)
  • HWK (Germany)
  • Ska (UK Office Retail and Higher Education Fit-out and Refit)

See Also: https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk/encyclopaedia/products/gbe-database-navigation/

See Also: Suppliers https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk//p=610

  • There are moves to minimise chemistry
  • REACH (Registration Evaluation Authorisation Restrictions of Chemicals EU Directive
  • RoHS (Restrictions of Hazardous Substances) EU Directive
  • Identify materials that should be avoided
  • SINList: Substitute it Now
  • SubsPort: Substitution Portal with more benign alternatives to commonly specified chemistry
  • ToxList: (identifying risks and prioritising chemistry to be avoided)

See Also: SUSTAINABLE INTERIORS: HOW TO MAKE A TANGIBLE IMPACT 

Health and Wellbeing in Design

Fabric first approach

  • Ensure that energy required is minimised by
  • Facing sun and permitting it to enter home particularly in winter
  • Solar shading worst summer heat gains to reduce overheating
  • Building and insulating using materials with right properties to prevent overheating via opaque building fabric
  • High performance windows avoiding cold down drafts affecting feet thermal comfort

Thermal Comfort

  • Well insulated building fabric (well above national legal minimum Building Regulations)
  • Thermal mass exposed and exploitable, stores solar heat gains and returns it once sun has set
  • Fairly constant temperatures 24 hours per day
  • Airtightness means no cold leaky drafts and no heat loss spewing through gaps
  • Thermal breaks mean no internal cold spots, no condensation, no mould, no rot, no structural failure
  • No more cold feet

Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery (MVHR)

  • Provide a constant supply of fresh air with low energy consumption
  • Recover heat from extracted ‘stale’ air to warm incoming air
  • Reduce energy consumption
  • Maintain healthy indoor air quality within home

Reduced heating season

  • Typically for just a couple of months per year
  • Resilience to future increases to energy costs
  • Carbon neutral renewable heating systems

Wellbeing

Biophilic design

  • Enabling occupants to enjoy features that reflect nature in all forms
  • There are many methods to be adopted
  • Passive ventilation allowing outdoor fresh air to enter and stale air to exit building via windows and doors and vents
  • Passive ventilation allowing outdoor natural sounds to enter building via windows and doors and vents
  • Passive ventilation allowing outdoor natural smells to enter building via windows and doors and vents
  • Views out onto daylit and sun lit nature
  • Outdoor landscape planting and water attracting wildlife
  • daylight without glare
  • Good daylight and sunlight entering building without harsh sunlight glare
  • Outdoor and indoor planting to add moisture and natural smells to indoor air
  • Internal sound of trickling water (but avoiding increasing moisture content of air putting building at risk)
  • Internal finishes made of natural materials and natural finishes
  • Decoration colours that reflect nature
  • Imagery of nature and natural landscape.

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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

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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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7th May 2024

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HHP Hockerton Housing Project Inside Indoor Out door Sun Space showing shading and exposed thermal mass, windows to warm cave

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