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  • Designing out Waste: Holy Trinity Primary School

    The best opportunities to reduce materials use and waste in construction occur at the design stage.

  • Cost Benefit Case Study - Social housing refurbishment

    This cost benefit analysis is based on a project to refurbish 100 social housing dwellings to reach the required "Decent Homes" standard . The project value is approximately £1.5 million.

    The study found that there was a total potential saving (net of implementation cost) of 0.48%.

  • Cost Benefit Case Study - New Build Warehouse

    This cost benefit analysis is based on a project consisting of  a new build construction of warehouse, incorporating a shed, office and  external works. The project value is approximately £11m.

    The study found that there was a total potential saving (net of implementation cost) of 0.51%.

  • Cost Benefit Case Study - Refurbishment of a small office to Cat A

    This cost benefit analysis is based on a project to refurbish one floor of office to cat A. The project value is approximately £730,000.

    The study found that there was a total potential saving (net of implementation cost) of 0.21%.

  • Cost Benefit Case Study - Trade package containing blocks, insultation and bricks

    This cost benefit analysis is based on the design stage of a structual blockwork trade package including insultation and facing bricks. The analysis is carried out per £100k spend.

    The study found that there was a total potential saving (net of implementation cost) of 7.37%.

  • Cost Benefit Study - New Build Supermarket

    This case study consists of a cost benefit analysis of the design stage of a project to construct a new supermarket with a value of approximately £3.8 million.

    The study found that there was a total potential saving (net of implementation cost) of 0.26%.

  • Cost Benefit Case Study - Refurbishment of a small retail unit

    This cost benefit analysis is based on the design stage of a project to refurbish a retail unit in a large shopping complex. The project value is approximately £1.4 million.

    The study found that there was a total potential saving (net of implementation cost) of 0.24%.

  • Cost Benefit Study- New build prison

    This cost benefit analysis is based on a project constructing a new build prison with a pre-cast concrete frame . The project value is approximately £4.9 million.

    The study found that there was a total potential saving (net of implementation cost) of 0.03%.

  • Logistics: Local procurement of construction materials

    This case study describes the use of locally procured materials in construction and the reuse and recycling of waste materials in order to minimise impacts upon the environment and costs to the contractor.

  • Recycled content in construction: Barclays Bank plc - a retail branch and office case study

    25 June 2007

    Analyses of two typical refurbishment projects were carried out with Barclays Bank. Reuse of materials resulted in financial savings and opportunities were identified for both projects to increase the overall recycled content while remaining cost neutral. 

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