Sustainability

29 January 2019

For us architects, for every design choice we need to factor in the life of a building and the future climate context for that building. It is our duty. It also'looking after client's money'

Regulatory Context

Approved Docs are not the building regs

Part L: Conservation of fuel and power in buildings

[Compliance not design]

Building Control Bodies may have conflicts of interest, used to be centralised

BER (GLA asks for this) > TER (your proposal)

Thinking ahead

We should know future progress to build for the future

If building fabric fails you could adopt technologies to counter this

AD L = flawed (false comparisons, not taking into account all loads, needs up to date activities for our time)

Fire Safety

Vested interest against application/compliance

England partial planning approval

Scotland full planning approval (before building)

Fire enters and spreads in cavities