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This month's features:
- BREEAM 2011 – summary of changes and BSRIA event
- BREEAM 2011 & Soft Landings – free download
- M&E maintenance providers struggling to meet client expectation
- Why is commissioning always compressed and late?
- Low Carbon Construction IGT report discussed
- Building manuals and building user guides – out in July
- Back to basics for school designs
- Measuring dust in the desert

TRAINING AND EVENTS
- BREEAM 2011 seminar
- Valuing the workplace, including O2 relocation case study
- Improving management of building services design

BREEAM 2011 – summary of changes and BSRIA event A summary of the main changes to BREEAM 2011 (BREEAM New Construction) to be launched on 1st July. This is the first major change of the UK’s standard environmental assessment method since 2008, when the mandatory post construction review was introduced. Watch out for BSRIA’s BREEAM 2011 event. > Read more

BREEAM 2011 & Soft Landings – free download

BREEAM New Construction will reward Soft Landings activities. Download a free guide showing where the Soft Landings Framework is referenced in BREEAM requirements, particularly in Sustainable Procurement.

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M&E maintenance providers struggling to meet client expectation

KPIs from BSRIA’s latest survey show overall client satisfaction with M&E contractors at an all-time low. Download a summary of the results and take part in this year’s survey.

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Why is commissioning always compressed and late?

Love it or hate it, commissioning is a necessity, but is often treated by construction teams as a chore and compressed. The first in a series of feature looks at the research findings from the Carbon Trust’s Low Carbon Buildings Programme.

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Low Carbon Construction IGT report discussed

YouTube video of BSRIA Chief Executive, Andrew Eastwell, discussing the Low Carbon Construction IGT (Innovation and Growth Team) report. Look out for the Government’s response in a future e-news.

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Building manuals and building user guides – out in July

BSRIA will shortly publish new guidance that aims to help those responsible for creating the building handover documentation. Building Regulations require new buildings to have some form of log book and BSRIA recommends the completion of a Building Manual and a Building User Guide.

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Back to basics for school designs

School design could undergo a sharp U-turn following a review of education capital spending by Sebastian James, which is highly critical of the previous government’s schools’ rebuilding programme.

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Measuring dust in the desert

BSRIA Instrument Solutions supplied DustTrak monitors to assess dust emissions from the Sua Pan Desert in Botswana as part of Oxford University research on climate change prediction..

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Training and events

BREEAM 2011

BREEAM New Construction (BREEAM 2011) will be launched on 1st July. This seminar will explain the changes, the background behind them, and how the new requirements can be satisfied.

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Valuing the workplace, including O2 relocation case study

‘Which way to work’ looks at how the way we work can be influenced by our surroundings and vice versa. It includes how mobile phone company O2 made positive changes through their recent head office relocation as well as a RIBA CPD approved presentation on 'creativity at work' from Herman Miller.

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Improving management of building services design

A new one-day training course from BSRIA based on our allocation of design responsibilities guidance. Delegates will learn how project teams can deliver better value to the client through improved control of design activities.

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