Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 - Other - Page 98
Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013
• Establish an appropriate glazing proportion and shading strategy for each
orientation to provide good levels of daylight while avoiding excessive glare,
solar gain or heat loss.
• Establish appropriate element thicknesses to achieve the U-values required by
the energy strategy.
• Check that materials and the construction approach will provide a level of
thermal mass that is appropriate to the environmental design strategy.
• Refine and review design decisions to minimise the quantity of materials used
and to minimise construction waste (for guidance, see www.wrap.org.uk/
designingoutwaste).
• Review the embodied impacts of the materials and the construction approach in
the context of the building’s lifespan.
• Avoid design solutions that inhibit adaptation and alternative use of the building
or its components and materials.
• Take particular care to avoid short- and long-term damage to retained traditional
building fabric from ill-considered upgrade interventions.
• Ensure that the design implications of any components, essential to the success
of the Sustainability Strategy (e.g. space for fuel deliveries and waste handling,
roof collector area and orientation, location and size of rainwater harvesting
tanks, SuDS attenuation, etc.) are understood by all members of the project team.
• Refine the energy and servicing strategy, incorporating energy-efficient services
design and design techniques.
• Carry out sufficient compliance or advanced modelling to prove the design
concept before freezing the design (e.g. SBEM/SAP/PHPP (Passivhaus
Planning Package) or dynamic modelling).
• Audit the emerging design against the project’s Sustainability Strategy and
Project Outcomes.
• Set up a programme of intermediate evaluations and reality checks involving
stakeholders and key users as well as the design team.
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