Management

Summary

This category encourages the adoption of sustainable management practices in connection with design, construction, commissioning, handover and aftercare activities to ensure that robust sustainability objectives are set and followed through into the operation of the building. Issues in this section focus on embedding sustainability actions through the key stages of design, procurement and initial occupation from the initial project brief stage to the appropriate provision of aftercare.

Category summary table

Issue	Credits	Credit summary
Man 01 Project brief and design	4	Stakeholder consultation covering project delivery and relevant third parties. Sustainability champion appointed to facilitate the setting, monitoring and achievement of BREEAM performance targets for the project.
Man 02 Life cycle cost and service life planning	4	Recognising and encouraging the use of life cycle costing and service life planning and the sharing of data to raise awareness and understanding.
Man 03 Responsible construction practices	6	The principal contractor demonstrates sound environmental management practices and consideration for neighbours across their activities on site. Site related energy, water and transport impacts are monitored and reported to ensure ongoing compliance during the Construction, Handover and Close Out stages and to improve awareness and understanding for future projects.
Man 04 Commissioning and handover	4	Schedule of commissioning including optimal timescales and appropriate testing and commissioning of all building services systems and building fabric in line with best practice. Inspecting, testing, identifying and rectifying defects via an appropriate method. Provision of a non-technical building user guide and user training or operator training timed appropriately around handover and proposed occupation.
Man 05 Aftercare	3	Provision of the necessary infrastructure and resources to provide aftercare support to the building occupiers. Seasonal commissioning activities will be completed over a minimum 12 month period, once the building becomes substantially occupied. The client or building occupier commit to carrying out a post occupancy evaluation (POEPost Occupancy Evaluation) exercise one year after initial building occupation and to disseminate the findings in terms of the building's post occupancy performance.

Issue

Credits

Credit summary

Man 01 Project brief and design

Stakeholder consultation covering project delivery and relevant third parties.
Sustainability champion appointed to facilitate the setting, monitoring and achievement of BREEAM performance targets for the project.

Man 02 Life cycle cost and service life planning

Recognising and encouraging the use of life cycle costing and service life planning and the sharing of data to raise awareness and understanding.

Man 03 Responsible construction practices

The principal contractor demonstrates sound environmental management practices and consideration for neighbours across their activities on site.
Site related energy, water and transport impacts are monitored and reported to ensure ongoing compliance during the Construction, Handover and Close Out stages and to improve awareness and understanding for future projects.

Man 04 Commissioning and handover

Schedule of commissioning including optimal timescales and appropriate testing and commissioning of all building services systems and building fabric in line with best practice.
Inspecting, testing, identifying and rectifying defects via an appropriate method.
Provision of a non-technical building user guide and user training or operator training timed appropriately around handover and proposed occupation.

Man 05 Aftercare

Provision of the necessary infrastructure and resources to provide aftercare support to the building occupiers.
Seasonal commissioning activities will be completed over a minimum 12 month period, once the building becomes substantially occupied.
The client or building occupier commit to carrying out a post occupancy evaluation (POEPost Occupancy Evaluation) exercise one year after initial building occupation and to disseminate the findings in terms of the building's post occupancy performance.