1.3 Lifecycle
Plan a more sustainable construction project
Wates uses an environmental policy to guide how it acts.
You are a design team working on a new development.
Your client wants the building to be more sustainable throughout its life.
- If you want, choose what your development will be.
- Discuss the activities that you have organised on the previous screen, such as energy use. Add in other activities that you think of as well.
- For each activity, agree one thing that will make your project more sustainable during its lifecycle. This could be an action or a design idea.
- Use a table to sort your ideas into lifecycle stages.
- You could present your table to your ‘client’ in a role-play.
Functional skills
- In your ‘meeting’, use the right vocabulary to ask questions and record your ideas.
- Do the same during your role-play presentation. What questions would you want to ask as a client of a construction company?
Enterprise skills
- Innovation
- Creativity
- Economic and business understanding
The enterprise process:
- Tackling a problem or need
- Planning