Sustainability

Question 1

What are the three Pillars of Sustainability?

Or

What is Brundtland?

Answer 1

1. Social
2. Environmental
3. Economic

This mixes to:

Social

Bearable (Social/Environment)

Economic

Equitable (Social/Economic)

Environnment

Viable (Environment/Economic)

SUSTAINABLE (Social/Environment/Economic)

Question 2

Whhat happens if one of the sustainable Pillars is weak?

Answer 2

• The system is unstainable.

Question 3

How would you describe sustainability?

Answer 3

• The needs of today must meet the demands of tomorrow.

Question 4

Name items relating to sustainability within the property industry?

Answer 4

1. Carban budgets
2. Corban offsetting
3. Climate Change/Agreements
4. District Heating
5. Electricity
6. Emmissions
7. Energy Efficiency
8. Feed in Tariffs
9. Fuel Poverty
10. Gas
11. CO2
12. Green Deal
13. International climate Change
14. Low Carban
15. Nuclear
16. Oil Prices
17. Smart Meters
18. Wind Farms
19. Solar Panels

Question 5

What is the relationship between property and the environmnet?

Answer 5

• Space
• Adaptation to human demands
• Growth - urbanisation
• Neighbourhoods - (inclusive environments)
• Infrastructure
• Technology
• Available resources/pollution
• Environment - Energy performance - heating & cooling (insulation)
• Changing priorities in investor decision making
• Sustainable investment

Question 6

What legislation, regulation and taxation processes affect projects?

Primary Acts/Orders

Answer 6

• Agricultural Lane (Removal of Surface Soil) Act
• Building Act 1984
• Clean Air Act
• Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act
• Climate Change Act
• Energy Act
• Environment Act
• Environment Bill
• Environmental Protection Act
• Flood and Water Management Act (Flooding)
• Localism Act
• Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act
• Protection of Badgers Act
• Water Act
• Water Resources Act
• Wildlife and Countryside Act

Question 7

Name some Secondary Legislation?

Answer 7

• Building Regulations
• Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulation
• Contaminated Land (England) Regulation
• Control of Asbestos Regulation
• Control of Noise (Codes of Practice for Construction and Open Sites) (England) Order
• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH)
• Controlled Waste Regulations Energy Efficiency (Refrigerators and Freezers) Regulations
• Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulation
• Environmental Permitting Regulations
• Environmental Protection (Controls on Ozone-Depleting Substances) Regulations

Question 8

What sustainability policies do we have?

Answer 8

• CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
• National Planning Policy Framework
• Zero Carbon homes
• Zero carbon non-domestic buildings
• National Waste MManagement Plan for England
• Green Deal
• Renewable Heat Incentive
• Feed-In Tariff Scheme (FIT)
• Carbon Emissions Reductions Target (CERT)

Question 9

Name some related topics to sustainability?

Answer 9

1. BREEAM / LEED / SKA
2. Code for Sustainable Homes
3. CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
4. Clean air Act
5. Emission rates
6. Energy Performance Certificates
7. Energy related products regulations
8. Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS)
9. Energy Targets
10. Flood and Water Management Act
11. Green Corridor
12. Green Deal
13. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
14. Localism Act
15. National Planning Policy Framework
16. Statutory authorities
17. Statutory obligations
18. Sustainability
19. Sustainable materials
20. Zero Carbon Homes

Question 10

How is sustainability measured in relation to finished buildings?

Answer 10

• Performance in use
  
  • ​Occupancy
  • Energy efficiency
  • Thermal comfort - Heating & Cooling
  • Airtight/fresh air requirements
  • Water testing (safe and sustainable)
  • Natural lighting (saving on using electric through lack of lighting)
  • Movement around the building
  • Sound (sound barriers between units)
  • Resource Harvesting (taking the heat out of things)

Question 11

How does design, technology and construction contribute to sustainable building?

Answer 11

• Construction
  
  • ​Modular
  • Green Constrction
  • Energy Reduction
  • Renewable material/energy
• Contamination
  
  • ​Asbestos/deleterious materials
  • Knott Weed
  • Hydrocarbons

Question 12

How does design relate to sustainability?

Answer 12

• Shape and size optimums (orientation)
• Accessibility and inclusion
• Insulation, airtightness, the buildings thermal mass (loss of heat)
• Natural light
• Green and sustainable materials
• Local labour, resource. transportation and training
• Renewable technologies - Solar, wind, ground source, harvesting rain water etc
• In use operational running costs, maintenance
• Whole life considerations

Question 13

What sources of renewable energy and recovery are there?

Answer 13

1. Electric Vehicles
2. Solar
3. Wind
4. Triple Glazing
5. Green Roofs
6. Landfill Gas
7. Heat Pumps
8. Hydo
9. Biogas
10. Biomass
11. Composting
12. Deep Geothermal
13. Marine
14. Renewable Transport Fuels
15. Storage
16. Passive Infrared detectors

Question 14

What is material resource efficiency within the supply chain?

Answer 14

• More efficient design
• Standardisation
• Using fewer materials
• Optimising the use of materials
• Preventing waste
• Reclaimed or high recycled content (reuse of materials)
• ​Pressure from investors, shareholders, costomers to push sustainability
  
  • ​Map your supply chain - reduce number oof process steps
  • Communicate expectations - Continuous improvement
  • Baseline supplier performance - Benchmarking (KPI) identify improvements
  • Develop training and capacity building programs - Best practice
  • Drive performance improvement - Audits, removing non-performers
  • Join industry collaboration - compare best practice

Question 15

How would you be sustainable in your working environment?

Answer 15

• By using and recyling less waste

Question 16

Where could we better with sustainability?

Answer 16

• Within schools - Loss of heat, lighting, movement within and around schools, improvments in heating

Question 17

How would you define sustainability?

Answer 17

• Sustainablility is the combination of Social, Environmetal and Economic factors
• Our needs of today must be able to meet the demands of tomorrow

Question 18

What drives sustainability in our industry?

Answer 18

• To be carbon neutral and to reduce costs be being more energy efficient
• National Planning Policy Framework
• Green Deal
• Feed In Tariff Scheme (FIT)
• Carbon Emisions Reductions Target (CERT)

Question 19

How does Sustainability affect our industry?

Answer 19

• Building Regulations, Climate Change Act, Energy Act, Flood and Water Management Act, Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act, Wildlife and Coutryside Act​

Question 20

Explain some renewable systems?

Answer 20

• Biomass, Triple Galzing, Wind, Biogas, Green Roofs, Solar etc

Question 21

How are property investors affected by economic, social and environmental sustainability concerns?

Answer 21

• Covid Rules/Regulations
• Risk in investment
• Occupier reputation
• Implement social distancing rules
• Sustainable suppliers
• Sustaintable contractors
• Increased sanitization