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Sustainable Construction Task Group Action Plan 43 as highlighting where further actions
need to be made.
6. Guidance documents and tools
Designing Out Waste: A Design Team Guide For Buildings
This document provides information on the key principles that designers can use during the
design process and how these principles can be applied to projects to maximise opportunities
to Design out Waste. The concepts and information presented apply to all professionals who
partake in the design process including construction clients, architects, engineers, design
teams and contractors. This guidance should be read in conjunction with other WRAP (Waste
& Resources Action Programme) documents relating to efficient use of materials in
construction.
http://www.wrap.org.uk/downloads/19279-
02_Design_Guide_online_pdf_version.89ea2330.7167.pdf
The WRAP Net Waste Tool calculates the waste arising on a construction project, shows how
to improve recycled content and quantifies the overall Net Waste for the project.
WRAP also produced RIBA accredited CPD literature 44 relating to designing out waste, to be
used in conjunction with their Designing Out Waste Tool, in 2009/10. Associated training
and workshops have also been developed. This work has led to the development of five key
principles that design teams can use during the design process to reduce waste:
Design for Reuse and Recovery;
Design for Off Site Construction;
Design for Materials Optimisation;
Design for Waste Efficient Procurement; and
Design for Deconstruction and Flexibility.
Lastly, WRAP has produced web-based guidance on Waste Minimisation, Waste
Management, Recycled Content and Regeneration 45 . By selecting the appropriate
button according to activity and role, a user is able to discover the opportunities available.
True Cost of Waste Calculator 46
This web-based tool provides a fuller cost of waste, environmentally and financially. The
environmental cost includes the embodied carbon of the products and materials that have
been wasted, along with the impacts associated with disposal or recycling, such as transport
impacts. The true financial costs include the cost of the product or material being wasted,
along with the cost of labour to handle the waste and cost of disposal or recycling. The
objective of this tool is to highlight the true cost of waste, against which benefits of waste
reduction can be compared. This provides a significantly more compelling business case and
accurate assessment of environment benefit compared to considering waste disposal costs and
impacts alone.
43 www.strategicforum.org.uk/waste.shtml. An Action Plan for halving construction, demolition and excavation
waste going to landfill, June 2011.
44 Designing Out Waste: A Design Team Guide and Designing out Waste tool. WRAP 2010
45 www.wrap.org.uk/construction/tools_and_guidance/achieving_resource_efficiency/index.html
46 www.wastecalculator.co.uk
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