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• Specify sustainable materials and products, balancing life-cycle assessment,
maintenance regime, durability and cost.
• Complete consultation with subcontractors and suppliers with regard to Technical
Design issues and review information packages to check that they are coordinated,
complementary and support all components of the Sustainability Strategy.
• Agree responsibilities and routines for data recording to monitor performance.
• Review the potential knock-on implications of value engineering on performance
and sustainability targets.
• Review the final details, including subcontractors’ packages, for airtightness
and continuity of insulation.
• Review the information required to demonstrate compliance with sustainability
requirements (e.g. materials certification).
Stage 5 – Construction
Sustainability aims
To ensure that the Sustainability Strategy underpinning the design is carried through
into construction and to manage the handover in a way that will ensure that the client
can operate the building as intended on occupation.
Checkpoints
• Has the design stage sustainability assessment been certified?
• Have sustainability procedures been developed with the contractor and
included in the Construction Strategy?
• Has the detailed commissioning and Handover Strategy programme been
reviewed?
• Confirm that the contractor’s interim testing and monitoring of construction
has been reviewed and observed, particularly in relation to airtightness and
continuity of insulation.
• Is the non-technical user guide complete and the aftercare service set up?
• Has the ‘As-constructed’ Information been issued for post-construction
sustainability certification?
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