Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 - Other - Page 96
Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013
Supplementary notes
• Commission surveys of existing buildings to be retained (including condition,
historic/townscape significance, materials and components for recycling),
services, noise, vibration, renewable energy resources, ecology, geology, etc. as
required to inform the brief.
• Review options for formal assessment of aspects of sustainability and/or energy
performance (e.g. BREEAM, LEED, Passivhaus). If the project is a component
of a larger scheme, ensure that targets support and are consistent with any
overarching sustainability assessment methodologies. Establish a timetable for
associated assessor appointment and early stage actions.
• Include a simple description in the Initial Project Brief of the internal
environmental conditions that the client requires.
• Involve the client’s facilities management team and review past experience
(both good and bad) in a spirit of openness in order to set environmental
and performance targets or Project Outcomes that are useful, measurable
and challenging but achievable and unambiguous. Energy use and carbon
emissions targets should include both regulated and unregulated use.
• Agree how to measure performance in use, what incentives there will be to
achieve Project Outcomes and what action is appropriate if anything falls short.
• Develop potential energy strategies, including estimated energy demand
calculations, options for renewables and implications for building or site design
(e.g. whether there is sufficient plant space).
• Develop water efficiency strategies to establish similarly robust performance
targets.
• Set out sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and surface water retention
requirements.
• Develop a brief for specialist environmental sub-consultants (e.g. wind monitoring
consultants, ecologists).
• Consider climate change adaptation criteria and future performance standards.
• Set out any future uses or reconfiguration to be accommodated.
• Ensure that the competence of potential design team members matches the
client’s Sustainability Aspirations.
• Client to implement the Site Waste Management Plan to enable designers to
record decisions made to reduce waste as the project progresses.
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