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Building for the Future - Sustainable Construction and Refurbishment on the Government Estate: Third Report of Session 2007-08 - Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence [235442]

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Each year Government departments and agencies spend in the region of GBP 3 billion on new building and major refurbishments. The Government has set estate-wide sustainability standards for the construction and refurbishment of its buildings. "Building for the Future: Sustainable Construction and Refurbishment on the Government Estate (HC 174)" examines evidence from the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on the reasons for the limited progress made to date and the prospects for improvement. The report finds that much remains to be done across Government to meet these standards.Conclusions and recommendations include: mandatory environmental assessments were carried out in only 35 per cent of new builds and 18 per cent of major refurbishment projects in 2005-06, and only 9 per cent of projects could be shown to meet the required environmental standards; departmental uptake of mandatory 'Quick Wins' - products pre-assessed to be more sustainable - was limited; monitoring against estate-wide operational sustainability targets does not set out clearly performance against 'Quick Wins' or sustainability targets for individual projects; and, departments did not carry out post-occupancy evaluations nor use whole life costing which is necessary if the most sustainable option is to be chosen. The Committee welcomes several initiatives that are being pursued to encourage the take-up of sustainable options.

Author:	Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Date Published:	15 January 2008
Document Type:	Books
Format:	Paperback
ISBN:	0215037987
ISBN13:	9780215037985
Pages:	30
Publisher:	Stationery Office Books

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