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BEAM P
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UILDINGS
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SPECTS
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ACILITIES
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REREQUISITE
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XCLUSIONS
One single family domestic building with not more than 3 floors or
domestic part of a composite building for one single family with not more
than 3 floors.
O
BJECTIVE
Reduce pressure on landfill sites and help to preserve non-renewable
resources by promoting recycling of waster materials.
R
EQUIREMENT
Provision of facilities for the collection, sorting, storage and disposal of
waste and recovered materials.
A
SSESSMENT
The assessment seeks to establish the extent to which facilities are
provided to allow for the recycling of waste. The means to facilitate waste
recycling is not prescribed as much depends on the design and type of
building, and the activities carried out within it.
The Client shall submit documentation and photographic evidence in the
form of a report detailing the expected waste streams and estimated
quantities for the building (organic, recyclable and non-recyclable), and
demonstrate the adequacy of the waste storage, sorting and recycling
facilities, appropriate to the type and size of the development, that will
encourage and facilitate waste recycling. Separate storage of recycled
materials such as metal, plastics, paper, cardboard and glass bottles
should be provided.
The assessment shall take into account how a system of waste
collection, storage sorting, recycling and disposal can be managed for
the buildings, with consideration given to the adequacy of space
provisions on individual floors, within the building as a whole, and at
local/estate level. Opportunity should exist to manage different waste
types, such as organic, non-recyclable and recyclable waste. There
should be easy access to facilities for cleaning staff/contractors and/or
building users, and for waste recycling and collection companies. The
storage area shall be adequately sized to allow for recycling of, as a
minimum, paper, glass, plastics, metals and organic materials.
B
ACKGROUND
Well-managed facilities for the recycling of solid waste encourage
recycling and result in reductions in the disposal at landfill sites.
Buildings should be designed with the provision of facilities for waste
separation and sorting, and short term storage at appropriate locations.
PNAP 98 [1] provides details of the basic refuse storage and recovery
chambers expected in new buildings.
Reference should be made to IEQ - Section 6.2 of this document with
regard to the hygiene aspects of waste disposal.
For a domestic building or composite building on a site of an area of not
more than 250 m
2
, the provision of a refuse storage and material
recovery room on every floor of a domestic building shall be exempted in
BEAM Plus Assessment.
As an indication the space requirements for commercial building,
industrial building and a building constructed or adapted for use
principally as a church, a school, a carpark or similar buildings, are 2 m
2
per 1,000 m
2
of usable floor space.
1
Buildings Department. Practice Note for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered
Geotechnical Engineer. PNAP No. APP-35
http://www.bd.gov.hk/english/documents/pnap/APP/APP035.pdf