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Procurement and Sustainable Buildings
The Government’s Sustainable Procurement Action Plan clearly identified the key issues and priorities relating to construction and sustainability, for both new build and refurbishment. The most important of these cover the need to meet minimum buildings standards (particularly BREEAM), to adopt a robust EMS, to ensure onsite recycling of construction waste, to require recycled content in procured products, to achieve water savings, and to make use of the Quick Wins Product List.
The Action Plan contains a number of case studies where public sector organisations have implemented these priority actions to the highest standard. It also refers to future plans in the schools sector in which more than 500 secondary schools, under current plans, will undergo ‘minor refurbishment’, leading to savings of 5,000 tonnes of carbon per year and savings of £5,000 per year on average. The Action Plan also identifies using micro-generation or renewable technologies in schools due for major refurbishment, a revised approach to addressing capital and running costs in schools, and exploring options such as Energy Services Companies who can provide capital funding in return for long term energy supply contracts.
The Action Plan contains a number of case studies where public sector organisations have implemented these priority actions to the highest standard. It also refers to future plans in the schools sector in which more than 500 secondary schools, under current plans, will undergo ‘minor refurbishment’, leading to savings of 5,000 tonnes of carbon per year and savings of £5,000 per year on average. The Action Plan also identifies using micro-generation or renewable technologies in schools due for major refurbishment, a revised approach to addressing capital and running costs in schools, and exploring options such as Energy Services Companies who can provide capital funding in return for long term energy supply contracts.
