Sustainable design is about translating your aspirations for the building into reality. It means ensuring that consultants understand your vision for the project, including your environmental objectives and social imperatives, and turn it into a workable set of drawings for construction. Key principles for sustainable healthcare buildings are defined in Module 0, and include:

1. Integrating with the local environment & promoting regeneration
2. Using resources, like energy & water, efficiently
3. Providing a high quality internal environment to support health and well-being for staff and patients.

Delivering sustainability involves managing the construction teams and their supply chains to make sure that site work, programme deadlines and the completed building meet your needs and expectations. In particular, it is important that the supply chain delivers on the sustainability aspirations you set during the project vision and brief/ specification and also operates sustainable site management practices, such as:

1. Managing health and safety requirements on site
2. Avoiding nuisance and disruption for staff, users and neighbours
3. Minimising waste, pollution and environmental damage.


Contents:

1 Introduction
2. Sustainable Design