The purpose of Guidance Note 31 is to assist with optimising a project’s sustainability performance under the 2014 UK Refurbishment and Fit-out scheme. It outlines at which RIBA stage credits should be addressed and ideally considered by the design team, planner, contractors, owners, occupiers and other members of the project team to achieve the highest possible BREEAM rating at the minimum cost. It demonstrates that where BREEAM advice is taken on too late within the design and construction phases a number of BREEAM credits may not be achieved.
Some projects may have short timescales due to the nature of Refurbishment and Fit-Out works with considerable overlap between stages. Thus some actions will have to be completed at a later RIBA stage than indicated in this document. However, early decisions can create opportunities and minimise barriers that impact on the ability of project teams to meet BREEAM criteria at a later stage in the project.
Current version: v0.0, published July 2017