Design Tools
Waste Resource Action Programme (Date) Sustainability Tools and Approaches It provides you with a comprehensive sustainability matrix with summary information for different tools and design quality indicators such as BREEA (BRE's Environmental Assessment Method), CEEQUAL (The Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Award Scheme), ESRSA (Environmental Sustainability of Recycled and Secondary Aggregates) and. each tool is summarised with cost information and approaches available to assist in the mainstreaming of sustainability into construction projects.
A number of the tools incorporate the use of aggregates, hence why it has been developed by WRAP. The site can help you to decide how to source and procure the most sustainable type of aggregates.The matrix contains relevant UK based sustainability approach tools with a presentation of how they deal with aggregates, as well as how the use of aggregates can contribute to your organisation's environmental policy and/or sustainability strategy.
www.aggregain.org.uk/sustainability/sustainability_tools_and_approaches/search
ESRSA
An Excel tool which forecasts the relative sustainability of different aggregates
http://www.aggregain.org.uk/sustainability/try_a_sustainability_tool/esrsa_tool.html
Golder's Sustainable Resource Management Tool
Calculates the way to the design of the most sustainable approach to handling waste.
http://www.aggregain.org.uk/sustainability/try_a_sustainability_tool/golders.html
RIBA have developed a suite of Climate Change Tools, a package of guidance developed to encourage architects to deliver low-carbon new buildings and low-carbon refurbishment of existing buildings.
Included is information about low carbon standards and assessment methods, low carbon design tools and briefing notes on the changes in the environment.
You can download the publications and tools from the RIBA website:
Climate change tools
http://www.architecture.com/FindOutAbout/ClimateChange/ClimateChange.aspx
