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GBE N11 Domestic Kitchen Fittings (Checklist) G#41726

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GBE N11 Domestic Kitchen Fittings Checklist

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  • Pages: G#41726
  • Classification:
  • CI/SfB:
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    • Materials:
  • CAWS:
  • CAWS 2012: N11 Domestic Kitchen Fittings
  • NGS CAWS+: N11 Domestic Kitchen Fittings
  • CSI:
  • Uniclass 1 1997: JN11 Domestic Kitchen Fittings
  • Uniclass 2: 2012:
  • NBS Uniclass + Clause tagging List 2017:
  • Uniclass 2: 2015:
  • Tags: GBE, Checklist, Kitchen, Utility Room, Domestic, Furniture
  • Keywords: GBE, Checklist, Kitchen, Utility Room, Domestic, Furniture, Materials
  • Categories: GBE, Checklist, New build, Interiors, Kitchen, Utility Room, Domestic, Furniture
  • Elements: Furniture, Kitchens, Utility rooms

1 Issues:

2 Consider:

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

Timber:

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
  • Taps that can be left running
  • Taps running at full bore full pressure, if not required
  • Taps that require pressure boosting pumps

Consider:

Utilities:
Power and energy supply:

  • On site renewable energy is best for low carbon emissions.
  • On site battery storage may be a sensible addition but consider a fire-resistant enclosure.
  • Electric vehicles battery can be used as a battery back-up for uninterrupted power supply in the event of a mains brown out.
  • Mains delivered green tariff is good but suffers from distribution losses.
  • Mains electricity is next for carbon emissions, since the mix of renewables is increasing all the time.
  • Gas is now worse than electricity for carbon emissions.

Voltage Optimisation:

  • Takes out the peaks and troughs from mains electricity due to variable inputs from many providers.
  • Reduces the amount you get more than you can ever use, reduce that mount you pay for.

Internet of Things special tariffs:

  • IoT ready appliances e.g. boilers and hot water cylinders, can monitor the cost of electricity hour by hour and only draw power from the mains when the price is low or free or they pay you.
  • Some service providers prearrange with users that you cannot turn on high demand appliance e.g. kettles during peak demands from the mains, but users get cheap electricity at low demand times.

Metering & Monitoring:

  • Fix your smart meters in the kitchen on show at eye level, visible all the time so they don’t get ignored.
  • Monitor usage and become familiar with energy demand of each appliance and minimise consumption.
  • With fridge and freezers achieving zero demand will be impossible.
  • Don’t over-fill kettles unnecessarily.
  • Put lids on pans to use less energy to get to higher temperatures.
  • Meters with attitude will stop bad behaviour: ‘faster faster faster’, ‘dialling in 250 to get to 180 quicker does not work’ ‘meters that tell you to wait until it achieves the first request then it will reconsider any conflicting instructions’.

White goods:

  • UK households use £1.2 bn (even before the recent price hikes) on electricity for fridges and freezers alone.
  • Specify and choose most efficient appliances: Efficiency: Grade A or better in all cases.
  • Significant energy savings over life of appliance and of building can be achieved.

Water Taps:

  • Taps offer opportunities for reducing water, energy and carbon demand.
  • Proximity detection taps will only operate when hands are present, so less risk of taps being left running flooding the house.
  • Because there are no tap handles to turn on, soap or germ residues on taps, do not occur and do not need cleaning so frequently or extensively.
  • Aerated taps or valves use considerably less water whilst not appearing to do so.
  • Two stage taps can offer low flow in first position and high flow in second position.

Antibacterial surfaces:

  • Application: sink, drainer, taps, ironmongery, work surfaces carcassing and fronts
  • Metals or coatings can provide hygienic surfaces without the 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 the drainage and sewerage system.
  • Coatings and surface materials impregnations can provide the same properties.

Water Valves:

  • Water reducing valves can be fitted to all appliances to reduce high mains pressure to an appropriate flow, so when a tap is open full bore the water is sufficient to rinse hands rather than fill a bath.
  • Water reducing/isolating valves can be fitted to all appliances to reduce waste when pipe systems would otherwise need to be drained for maintenance.

Insulating hot water and heating pipes:

  • Wherever pipes run in voids, in the back of kitchen units or above floor finishes they should be insulated and boxed in by skirtings or dado panels.

Extractor fans:

  • Moisture vapour and heat from the kitchen can find its way out from the kitchen towards the outdoor air via walls floors or roofs and put their components to the test and potentially cause interstitial or surface condensation leading to mould and potential structural failure.
  • Moisture vapour, evaporated cooking fat, food smells or smoke from all cooking processes can be passive removing via windows, doors, or actively with mechanical extract hoods via pipes to open external air.
  • A recent introduction is an extractor within a kitchen base unit or island unit within proximity of the hot plates or gas rings, it sucks the gasses away into the base unit and ducts it away to outside air via wall or floor.

Moisture management in surface finishes:

  • Use of moisture absorbent or hygroscopic materials in the ceiling and walls can manage some of the excess moisture vapour by absorbing the 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.

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 of kitchen furniture and there is no need for preservative treatment internally so they are a healthy options.
  • Over the past decades competition in the kitchen furniture sector has driven manufacturers to find cheaper ways to make them, we have seen the 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 the 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, the first layer of adhesive is buried below the first veneer so appears to be the healthier option; all the other options bring adhesives or binders to the surface where off gassing into the indoor air, potentially healthier.

Drawers:

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

Faces:

  • Options include:
  • Painted or stained timber-based boards, coated MDF, plastic laminate, hardwood veneer, linoleum or leather are some of the options to bond to timber-based boards.
  • Linoleum appears to be the 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, 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, the resin consists of chemistry or plastics and may off-gas.
  • Polished concrete with a variety of virgin or recycled aggregates.
  • Polished terrazzo.

3 Health:

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4 Resourceful:

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5 Install/Use/Maintenance

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6 Waste Issues:

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7 End of Life Options:

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19 HERACEY™:

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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

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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

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  • Carbon back periods

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