FILE UPLOADS: It may help to speed up the quotation process if you have the following information: Drawings as per air testing, BREEAM or Code requirement, Additional planning requirements, e.g. renewable energy contributions, Employer's requirements

What should the design team be aware of?

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Meet with assessor, architect, M&E engineer and contractor early in the project to go through all credits to work out which will be the easiest to achieve to make up your desired rating.
Depending on your site there may be ‘easy’ credits, for example building on an already developed piece of land will mean you are more likely to achieve a greater number of the Land Use and Ecology credits. However building on a ‘greenfield site’ will mean that a number of the credits here are unachievable.
Certain issues complement each other, specifying renewables or low carbon technologies could get you credits for three different issues; Ene 1 Reduction of CO₂ emissions, Ene 5 Low or zero carbon technologies and Pol 4 NO_x emissions from heating source.

Man 5 Site Investigation must be carried out no later than BIBA stage C
Man 6 Consultation – consultation plan must be prepared at RIBA stage B
Ene 5 Low or zero carbon technologies - feasibility study should be carried out at RIBA
stage C
LE5 Enhancing site ecology- ecologists report must be based on a site visit before commencement of initial site preparation sites.
A number of credits rely on other credits being achieved; it is not possible to achieve Man 10 Development as a learning resource or Man 7 Shared Facilities if the Man 6 Consultation credit has not been achieved.