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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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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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thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
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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
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
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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
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
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
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
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.
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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)
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
Defining The Business Case
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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,
Liability
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
Defining The Business Case
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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
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Achieving High Performance Buildings –
The Process
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Policy
Capacity
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
Achieving HPBs: The Process
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Project Inception And Feasibility
• Option Appraisal
• Developing A Strategic Brief
• Procurement Strategy
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
Achieving HPBs: The Process
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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
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
Achieving HPBs: The Process
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Tendering and Construction
• Project Tendering
• Construction Phase
Handover and Use
• Commissioning
• Post Occupancy Evaluation
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
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
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
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thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
Hoe
8 December 2006 www.thirdwave.org.uk
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
Hoe
8 December 2006 www.thirdwave.org.uk
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
Hoe
8 December 2006 www.thirdwave.org.uk
thirdwave High Performance Buildings for Universities and Colleges
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