Sustainability

Question 1

What are the three pillar of sustainability?

Answer 1

Social, environmental, economical

Question 2

What is embodied carbon?

Answer 2

Carbon emission associated with the materials and construction process

Question 3

What is operational carbon?

Answer 3

Carbon emission associated with during the operations of a building

Question 4

What are the government’s carbon reduction targets?

Answer 4

• Net zero by 2050
• Cutting carbon emissions by 45% by 2030,

Question 5

What are BREAM ratings?

Answer 5

Outstanding - above 85%
Excellent - above 70%
Very good - 55%
Good - 45%
Pass - £30%
Unclassified - below 30%

Question 6

What are the bream credits you can obtain?

Answer 6

Management
Water
Energy
Transport
Health & wellbeing
Resources
Resilience
Land use & ecology
Pollution
Materials
Waste
Innovation

Question 7

What did you include in you LCC assessment?

Answer 7

Analysis of the building replacement, maintenance and operation cost of the building components over a period of time

Question 8

What data did you use when producing the LCC?

Answer 8

BCIS Building Running Cost Online
BICS component life data

Question 9

What is LCC?

Answer 9

Focuses only on the construction, renewal, maintenance, operation and end of life cost of the building components over a period of time

Question 10

On the Learning center why did you choose to carry out a LCC over 60 years?

Answer 10

This was determined by the client?