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CaSPrSustainable Construction In Universities and Colleges

High Performance Buildings for

Universities and Colleges:

A Guide to Making the Case and Managing

the Implementation for Senior Managers

Courtney Hyde Peyton

Managing Director, Thirdwave Ltd

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8 December 2006 www.thirdwave.org.uk

High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges

thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges

A Guide to help senior, non-specialist

decision-makers in universities and

colleges to achieve more sustainable and

better implemented design

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• Summarises the key features of ‘high

performance buildings’, i.e. buildings that

deliver both business and sustainability

benefits

• Makes the business case (and the

environmental case) for more high

performance buildings within the sector

Key Objectives


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• Maps how environmental issues impinge on

different stages of the building process, from

inception through design, tendering and

construction to handover and use

• Describes what clients can do to ensure that

these issues are fully considered, and that

actions which are identified are implemented

successfully in practice

Key Objectives


Defining as ‘high performance buildings’

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• Promote holistic design process optimising

the performance of all key features of the

building, - ‘green’ features support design aims,

e.g. comfort and high utilisation

• Highlight contrast with current ‘low

performance buildings’, not only energy

consumption and environmental features, but

also occupant health and satisfaction, and high

operating costs


Defining as ‘high performance buildings’ cont.

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• Change perception that energy and

environmental issues are ‘late stage’ issues,

best dealt with by specialists. Treat

strategically, as key design requirements,

maximising the opportunity for ‘win-win’

solutions.


Defining The Business Case

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Financial

• Capital Cost• Increases – renewables, new technologies –

unfamiliarity, late entry, showiness, supply

• Decreases – better sizing, less kit, more space

• Operating Costs• Energy, water, sewage, maintenance,

repair/replacement

• Insurance(s)



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Risk

• Energy and Water• Impacts on budget via market and fiscal

measure, dependability of supply

• Inflexible Buildings • Future use, disruption/ability to trade,

changes users demands, expectation, regulations

• Workplace Health and Safety• Sick Building Syndrome, Indoor Air Quality,

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Performance and Reputation

• Productivity• 1 x 5 x 200• Competitive international market• Commercialisation of Academia

• Reputation and Recruitment• Corporate Responsibility

• Meeting funders (public and private) expectations

• Media – praise and shame

• Costs of recruitment, retention, or brain drain


Achieving High Performance Buildings –

The Process

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Policy

Capacity


Achieving HPBs: The Process

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Project Inception And Feasibility

• Option Appraisal

• Developing A Strategic Brief

• Procurement Strategy



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Design

• Sustainability Benefits From Integrated

• Design barriers To Sustainable Design

• Achieving Integrated Design

• Features Of High Performance Design

• Materials / Construction Strategy



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Tendering and Construction

• Project Tendering

• Construction Phase

Handover and Use

• Commissioning

• Post Occupancy Evaluation


The Environmental And Social Benefits of High Performance Buildings

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• Materials

• Energy And Climate Change

• Waste

• Water And Drainage

• Local Environment

• Socio-economic Effects


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For Further Information:

[email protected]

0131 625 1469

www.thirdwave.org.uk

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