Number of credits available | Minimum standards |
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4 | No |
To deliver whole life value by encouraging the use of life cycle costing to improve design, specification, through-life maintenance and operation , and through the dissemination of capital cost reporting promote economic sustainability.
This issue is split into three parts:
The following is required to demonstrate compliance:
None.
Ref
| Terms | Description |
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Shell and core | ||
CN1 | Applicable assessment criteria | Elemental life cycle cost, capital cost reporting and maintenance strategy, criteria 1 to 3 and 6 Both options: All assessment criteria relevant to the building type and function apply. Component level LCC plan, criteria 4 to 5 Both options: The plan must include all component types to be installed by the developer. Refer to Appendix D – BREEAM UK New Construction and Shell and Core Project Assessments for a more detailed description of the above shell and core assessment options. |
Simple buildings | ||
CN2 | Applicable assessment criteria | Capital cost reporting (1 credit)
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General | ||
CN3 | Appropriate examples See criteria 3 and 5 . | The option(s) selected to demonstrate how life cycle costs have been minimised and critical value maximised must be appropriate in terms of its relative impact on project costs, future building maintenance burden and size (volume or area) and the stage of the project. At stage 2, when considering the outputs from the elemental LCC plan, examples could be in the form of elemental appraisal(s) (where appropriate), evolutions in concept design to reduce maintenance or replacement costs and / or contracts for further elemental analysis. At stage 4, when considering the outputs from the component level option analysis, examples are likely to be in the form of component specifications coupled with justifications for their selection (i.e. how they reduce life cycle costs / maximise critical value). |
CN3.1 | Pre-defined specifications | Where the building is constructed to a pre-defined standard specification, the LCC elemental plan for this specification may be used to help demonstrate compliance. |
CN3.2 | Capital cost reporting | At the design stage of assessment, where the final information is not available, the credit can be awarded where the client provides the predicted capital cost, including contingencies, and commits to providing this information for the final stage of assessment. At the final stage, if the final capital cost is not known, the client's/cost consultant's best estimate should be provided. This data will be used to inform future BREEAM performance benchmarking and will be anonymised. |
CN3.3 | Independent assessment of parts | All three parts can be awarded independently from one another. For example, the project team can still target the one credit for the component level LCC option appraisal at stage 4 even if they have not been awarded the first two credits at stage 2 for developing an elemental life cycle cost plan. The capital cost reporting credit can also be awarded independently from the other two parts. |
CN3.4 | Component level LCC option appraisal – assessing types 4a-4d | The Component level LCC option appraisal should review all of the component types listed; 4a to 4d (where present). However not every single example cited under each component need be considered; only a selection of those most likely to draw valued comparisons. This is to ensure that a wide range of options are considered and help focus the analysis on components which would benefit the most from appraisal. |
CN3.5 | Elemental LCC plan study period | The study period should ideally be agreed by the client, in line with the design life expectancy of the building. However, where the life expectancy of the building has not yet been formally agreed (due to the early stages of the design process), the default design life of 60 years should be used for modelling purposes (in line with the UK default). |
Building type specific | ||
CN4 | Law courts buildings – responsibility for compliance | When considering this issue, the term 'project team' includes the Ministry of Justice. Responsibility for complying with the criteria of this issue may rest with any or all of the project team members and it is likely that this will vary depending on the procurement route used for the project. |
None.
Criteria |
Interim design stage
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Final post construction stage
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All | One or more of the appropriate evidence types listed in The BREEAM evidential requirements section can be used to demonstrate compliance with these criteria. | |
1, 2 and 3 | Elemental life cycle cost plan. | As per interim design stage. |
4, 5 | Component level life cycle cost plan. | As per interim design stage. |
6 | Predicted capital costs via the BREEAM scoring and reporting tool. | Capital costs via the BREEAM scoring and reporting tool. |
BREEAM UK New Construction non-domestic buildings technical manual 2014
Reference: SD5076 – Issue: 5.0
Date: 23/08/2016
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