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Water

Category overview

Weightings     Minimum standards

Fully fitted 7%

Shell only 4%

Shell and core 7.5%

Wat 01, Wat 02

Summary

This category encourages sustainable water use in the operation of the building and its site. Issues in this section focus on identifying means of reducing potable water consumption (internal and external) over the life time of the building and minimising losses through leakage.

Category summary table

Issue ID

Issue name

Credits

Credit summary

Wat 01

Water consumption

5

  • Reducing the demand for potable water through the provision of efficient sanitary fitting, rainwater collection and water recycling systems

Wat 02

Water monitoring

1

  • Specification of a water meter/s on the mains water supply to encourage water consumption management and monitoring to reduce the impacts of inefficiencies and leakage.

Wat 03

Water leak detection

2

  • Recognition of leak detection systems capable of detecting a major water leak on the mains water supply
  • Flow control devices that regulate the supply of water to each WC area/facility to reduce water wastage.

Wat 04

Water efficient equipment

1

  • Identify a building's total unregulated water demand and mitigate or reduce consumption through systems and/or processes.

Wat 01 Water consumption

Wat 02 Water monitoring

Wat 03 Leak detection

Wat 04 Water efficient equipment


BREEAM UK New Construction non-domestic buildings technical manual 2014
Reference: SD5076 – Issue: 5.0
Date: 23/08/2016
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