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Health Buildings
Unhealthy buildings
unhealthy materials
unhealthy practices
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High
Hi h dependence
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on artificial
tifi i l services:
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Light, ventilation, heat,
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Healthy Building
Healthy Maintenance:
Difficult and expensive to maintain
Mould created
Bacteria harboured
MRSA and other superbugs
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Handles
All door ironmongery
lift call
ll buttons
b tt
stair handrails
WC flushes
telephones
emergency buttons
curtains
equipment
televisions
keyboards
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Proximity taps:
Use less water
No touching before washing: no bacteria
No touching during washing: no soap
No touching after washing: no wet
py scum need less cleaning
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Less soapy
Use natural soaps: less harm in sewers
Liquid
Li id soaps: deplete
d l t resources
Foaming soaps: use less resources
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PVC
Toxic smoke in fires
Not fire fighter friendly
Low smoke alternative cable sheathing
Avoid PVC windows, doors, skirting,
trunking, dado crash rails, etc.
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Preservative treatment
Designed to kill
Usually applied in pressure vessels
On site touch-up necessary at all cuts
mortices and drillings
Spray applied
Off gassing?
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Alternative Paints
Low VOC (with care)
Non-solvent
Non solvent (water based)
Non-synthetic (natural)
Plant based
Mineral
Mi
l based
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Lime based
Clay based
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Carpets
Fitted Carpet
Off gassing: new carpet smell
Synthetic top and backings
Harbour dust (skin flakes)
Dust
D t mites
it and
d ffaeces
Rise in Asthma
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Carpet
Natural Wool
Sheep dip
Moth repellents
Central Nervous System Depressants
WWII enemy kill
killers
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under
No need or local application
furniture
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Services
Mechanical ventilation
Recycling air
Risk of spreading of airborne diseases
Recycle heat and coolthe but not the air
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Mechanical
h i l ventilation
til ti with
ith heat
h t
recovery
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Permeable Pavement
Bacteria living in the interstices of
hardcore with no fines
Eating the bacteria from animal and bird
faeces from pavements and roofs
Keeping water collected healthy for
recycling
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www.greenspec.co.uk
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Health Building
Design
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NEAT > BREEAM and others
Health
NEAT
Created by Health specialist Architect
Self assessment
(not seen as robust enough)
BREEAM Health
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BREEAM
BREEAM for New Health Buildings
BREEAM Offices
BREEAM for Existing Offices (old but still
current)
BREEAM in use (introduced 2009)
EcoHomes for Nurses accommodation
A rating
Reusing Existing Fabric gets an A+
BRE Tools
Green Guide to Specification
Envest Software
Environmental Estimator based on EcoPoints
www.greenspec.co.uk
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Health Building
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Information
Sources
Websites and others
Product databases
Low allergy database
Indoor Air Quality
Healthy materials
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www.greenspec.co.uk
Useful
U
f l
Websites
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WEN
Womens Environment Network
Discourage use synthetic disposable
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and female g
goods
nappies
Endorse reusable washable nappies
and LA washing services
Endorse Organic, Local, Fairtrade
Natural Flooring Network
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www.greenspec.co.uk
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Health Buildings
& PFII
Unhealthy
y NHS Finances made worse?
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www greenspec co uk
www.greenspec.co.uk
14/04/2007
Specification
Proposal
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Proctor & Matthews Architects
Brian Murphy BSc Dip Arch (Hons+Dist)
ASWS (Architectural Specification Writing Services)
GreenSpec (National Green Specification)
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