Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 - Other - Page 100
Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013
Stage 4 – Technical Design
Sustainability aims
To ensure that the final design work prepared by the design team and the follow-on
design work by specialist subcontractors reflects the technical requirements of the
underpinning Sustainability Strategy.
Checkpoints
• Is the formal sustainability assessment substantially complete?
• Have details been audited for airtightness and continuity of insulation?
• Has the Building Regulations Part L submission been made and the design
stage carbon/energy declaration been updated and the future climate impact
assessment prepared?
• Has a non-technical user guide been drafted and have the format and content
of the Part L log book been agreed?
• Has all outstanding design stage sustainability assessment information been
submitted?
• Are building Handover Strategy and monitoring technologies specified?
• Have the implications of changes to the specification or design been reviewed
against agreed sustainability criteria?
• Has compliance of agreed sustainability criteria for contributions by specialist
subcontractors been demonstrated?
Supplementary notes
• Agree technical requirements to support the monitoring strategy.
• Ensure that artificial lighting and daylighting strategies and controls are mutually
supportive in delivering low energy consumption.
• Involve facilities management and users in reviewing the environmental
control systems and manual and automatic controls to ensure that they
are appropriately simple and intuitive, and that there is a match between
expectations and the design.
• Make sure that the project team is aware of the technical consequences of
strategic sustainability decisions.
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