delivering transformational sustainability peter grear

DELIVERINGTRANSFORMATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

Peter Grear

KEY MESSAGES

>The Challenge>Framework>Commercial Reality>Technology>Examples and Strategy

THE CHALLENGE

SUSTAIN

>Up hold>Nourish>Corroborate>Bear weight>Stand up to>Decide in favour>Means of support>Endure without giving way

Accountable radical transformation

Sheffield Tweksbury Meadowhall

CHANGE

CHANGE

CHANGE

Rheobatrachus silus

CHANGE

> Mobile phones / Laptops / Satellite navigation> Facebook> MP3 players> Jet travel for a £1> Electronic wipe boards > Wind Farms> Solar panels> Corporate Social Responsibility> Dolly the sheep cloned in 2003> Micro surgery > Big Brother> CCTV monitoring of public spaces

WITCHDOCTOR EFFECT!

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YOU TUBE - CONSTRUCTION MISHAPS

FRAMEWORK

INFLUENCE?

£45 billion 3,500 secondary schools

17 Million

2005 > “VERY GOOD”

Thresholds

> Primary £0.5m

> Secondary £2.0m

> >10% floor area

Ratings

> Unclassified < 20

> Pass ≥ 25 – < 40

> Good ≥ 40 – < 55

> Very good ≥ 55 – <70

> Excellent ≥ 70

SUSTAINABILITY WEIGHTING IN BSF

Category % Weighting

LEP Partnership 30

PFI sample sch 20

Design and 15

Facilities 10

ICT 15

Legal 5

Financial 5

Total 100

SUSTAINABILITY=~3%

> LEP Sustainable scoring - 30%

> Sample Schools - 15% D&B - 15%

> Facilities Management – 10%

> ICT – 20%, Legal – 5%, Finance – 5%

> Overall rating in BSF programme

Source data : Sean Lockie, F&G

SUSTAINABILITY = ~1%

SUSTAINABILITY = ~0.8%

SUSTAINABILITY = neglible

SUSTAINABILITY = Zero

SUSTAINABILITY = <3%!!

COMMERCIAL REALITY

PERCEIVED COST INCREASE!

Solutions:> integrated sustainability => good design!

> Knowledgeable and intelligent priorities

> Early intervention and planning

> Capital cost increase on a ‘poor’site = 3.0% 9.8%

VICIOUS CIRCLE

FUNDING AVAILABILITY

New Build values range from

£1500m2 - £2500m2

Refurbishment values range from

£600m2 - £950m2*

Grant funding for renewables

Sources: EU

Central Govt

Charities

BSF

Local Authorities

Sub andsuperstructure 25%

Services 30%

Finishes 5%

Carbon 2% !

External works 5%

FF&E 3%

Fees / OHP/Prelims30%

6%

65%build

2%

Alternative revenue streams?

Leisure facilities

+

Council offices

+

Police station

Transparent, easy accessto facilities

Shared services

BREEAM ‘very good’ low energy building

CARBON CALCULATORS

www.teachernet.gov.uk

Useful but not very effective!

Alternatively utilise EPC approach:

similar to Breeam but less biased;

calculates performance of structure,

fabric and services uses iSBEM

modelling.

Good for existing premises

Calculates best improvements

for least costs

CO2 = 0!

= 5 Watts/m2?

Primary School

>Primary school

Source: Bryanston Square

TECHNOLOGY

“When you understand all about the sun

and all about the rotation of the earth, you can still miss the radiance of the sun”A.N Whitehead (educational philosopher ) Science and the Modern World

IS THIS THE ANSWER?

HIERARCHY OF ACTION

1

2

3Renewables

Efficient energy use

Reduce energy need

VENTILATION AS AN EXAMPLE:

Guidance on ventilation changed

Considerably since 2006

Mott MacDonald undertook major study on naturally vented classrooms:

Windows DO provide adequate ventilation to meet requirements under various legislation

50% of classrooms under ventilated because windows not used!

Perception issues identified

Solution: Old fashioned operable windows!

Example: Sheffield PFI 2 secondary and 2 primary schools

Once installed the team trained and guided staff and pupils on effective use

EXEMPLAR SCHOOLS

LANGLEY ACADEMY

PV Reed Beds Bio fuels

Rainwater harvest

WindNatural light

Solar heat

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

“Our GCSE results and the fact that our students finished top of the national league tables for progress can rightly be attributed to the impact the building has had on their studies.”

Head teacher

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

STRATEGY FOR DELIVERY!

> Understand the issues and inspire others

> Master plan for delivery strategy

> Select best team for the project

> Ensure communication with other stakeholders

> Develop client brief –unambiguous/measurable

> Expect to have difficulties and plan for them!

> Challenge the compromises especially cost

> Provide feedback and be positive

> Challenge the standard norm

BEWARE!

Do not go gentle into the good night

Old age should burn and rave at the close of the day

Rage, rage against the dying of the light Dylan Thomas

Ignoring climate change will be the most costly of all possible choices, for us and our children

Peter Ewins, British Met Office