The Bluebook 5

Water Saving

CI/SfB

April 2014

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Uniclass L721

ideal Standard / ARMITAGE SHANKS

Water Saving

Code for Sustainable Homes ‘An environment assessment method for rating and certifying the sustainable performance of new homes’. Measures and certificates sustainability against 9 design categories.

Categories 2 and 7 are relevant for bathrooms Category 2 = Water Category 7 = Health and Well being (Includes section on Life Time Homes) New houses are assessed on water usage per person as measured by the Water Calculator (see Part G).

Performance Target

Maximum ‘Wholesome’ Consumption (litres/person/day)

Part G

125 (inc. 5 lpm external water use)

Code level 1- 2 120 Code level 3 - 4 105 Code level 5 – 6 80

A rating of 105 litres is mandatory for Public Housing (Level 3). All new private housing has to have a code rating, though there is no mandatory code requirement yet.

Our in house and external specification teams can provide you with assistance in meeting any of the code levels above. BREEAM BREEAM is an environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings A BREEAM assessment uses recognised measures of performance, which are set against established benchmarks, to evaluate a building’s specification, design, construction and use. The measures used represent a broad range of categories and criteria from energy to ecology. They include aspects related to energy and water use, the internal environment (health and well-being), pollution, transport, materials, waste, ecology and management processes. It encourages designers, clients and others to think about low carbon and low impact design, minimising the energy demands created by a building before considering energy efficiency and low carbon technologies.

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