Environmental and health related criteria for buildings - ANEC

IBO - Environmental and Health related Criteria for Buildings
Social Responsibility
Within the main category “Process Quality”, several issues refer to social aspects ensuring
noise and dust attenuation as well as adequate working conditions and health protection
measures at the building site. Procedures for pre-selecting construction firms and the
complete documentation of all materials and substances used at the construction site
(including handling instructions for workers) shall both increase safety.
48. Construction Site – Construction Process
1. Low-noise construction sites 88
Noise arising from construction site activities shall be lower than the outdoor ambient noise
level or requirements defined in tender documents. Verification must be provided by
measurements (for the best level to achieve).
3. Low-dust construction sites
As specified within DGNB certification system, dust attenuation is especially a topic of
workplace safety. The impacts on neighbourhood and corresponding prevention measures
are not taken into account although neighbourhood indirectly benefits from the dust
prevention measures described below:
Machines have to be equipped with efficient exhaustion according to the state of technology.
Dust has to be collected and disposed as close as possible to its place of origin in order to
avoid distribution to working areas which are not affected. Wet or suction processes are
to prefer. Machines and technical equipment to avoid dust have to be regularly maintained.
45. Optimisation of the Planning Process
Even more attention on safe working conditions at the building site is paid by the requirement
for a so-called “SiGe”-Plan 89 within the issue “Optimisation of the Planning Process”. A
coordinator responsible for all safety and health protection measures at the building site has
to be appointed and a safety plan (specified to the building site) developed and implemented.
Apart from this site related safety measures, energy and water saving strategies,
optimisation proposals for daylighting, design variants, strategies to ease maintenance and
monitoring as well as waste management concept and design for reassembly, reuse and
recycling are awarded within this issue. The planning results shall be approved by an
independent third party.
46. Integration of sustainability requirements in tendering and award procedures
Scores are awarded within the main category “Process Quality” if requirements for e.g.
- Recycling management
- Waste Management on site
88 References cited in the draft version: „§ 27 des Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetzes vom 15. März 1974 (BGB1I
S. 721), neu gefasst durch die Bekanntgabe vom 14. Mai 1990 (BGB1 III 2129-8)
RAL, 2007, Grundlage für Umweltzeichenvergabe Lärmarme Baumaschinen RAL-UZ 53
EG,2000, Richtlinie über umweltbelastende Geräuschemissionen von zur Verwendung im Freien vorgesehenen
Geräten und Maschinen Outdoor-Richtlinie 2000/14/EG“
89 Sicherheits- und Gesundheitsschutzplan, Baustellenverordnung (BaustellV) 01.07.1998
The requirements set with respect to safety and health protection does not exceed regulations
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