ABSTRACT
Integrating sustainability into the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 has been a core objective. This chapter summarises the sustainability aims at each stage, linked to corresponding Sustainability Checkpoints, and supplementary notes that encourage the review of relevant sustainability issues as a project progresses. It examines the Sustainability Strategy at each RIBA stage are stated, along with the Sustainability Checkpoints highlighted in a bespoke RIBA Plan of Work 2013 created using the online tool. For a building to be truly sustainable it must deliver the good intentions that are embedded in its design once it is occupied, and then continue to do so throughout its life. To ensure that the Sustainability Strategy underpinning the design is carried through into construction and to manage the handover in a way that will ensure that the client can operate the building as intended on occupation.
