Soft Landings
Soft Landings
By way we deliver projects
A revolution in the
Challenges and
Roderic Bunn
opportunities
Seminar chairman: Roderic Bunn, BSRIA
Our speakers
12.30 Introduction to Soft Landings Gary Clark
12.35 A local authority perspective Mike Chater
Soft Landings
By
Challenges
and
13.00 Soft Landings and
environmental
assessment
methods
Roderic
Bunn
- Can they work together? Julie opportunities
Godefroy
13.25 Soft Landings for Contractors John Whyte
13.50 10 minute Q&A
Soft Landings
Introduction
Context: Actual Carbon Emissions
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Recent research findings
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Context: Functionality
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Credit
 Mark Way - 1990s
– Transforming experience through period
in residence on handed-over project
 Mark Way - 2004
– Developed preliminary Scope of Service
for Soft Landings
 UBT / BSRIA - 2009
– Soft Landings Framework
– Download in PDF for free via
www.bsria.co.uk/bookshop
www.usablebuildings.co.uk
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What is Soft Landings?
 A framework of activities for all key members of a project team
 A process for designers and constructors to improve operational
performance after handover
 Gives more clarity at the inception and briefing stages about client needs
and operational outcomes
 Requires performance targets (such as energy use) to be set and
regularly reality-checked through the project
 Places greater emphasis on building readiness activities
 Provides for a Soft Landings team on site during the settling-in period
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Soft Landings User Group
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Interdisciplinary user
discussion

Test process
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Share experience
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Highlight barriers
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Share data
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Contractual implications
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Create database of case
studies
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Define real examples of
benefits
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Convergence: successes
Industry
recognition
Soft Landings
Framework
BSRIA and the
UBT (BSRIA SL
User Group)
Government
recognition
Low Carbon
Construction
Innovation and
Growth Team
Research needs
BREEAM credit
Soft Landings a
requirement
Soft Landings in
BREEAM 2011
Technology Strategy
Board (BPE programme)
Overtures made by
Soft Landings User
Group and BSRIA
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Convergence: work in progress
Industry Initiatives
Soft Landings as
justification
BSRIA ITT and PQQ, link
to WRAP proposed
equivalents for CEP?
Reference in
contract forms
JCT & NEC contract
recognition and
revision
Government
procurement
WRAP consultation
on Carbon Efficiency
Plan
Action by JCT via RICS
Pilot
programme
Schools procurement
programme via PfS
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Soft Landings Revelations
1. Building projects will be judged on their operational
outcomes, not their design specifications
2. Practical completion will no longer be the point at which a
project team is paid and begins to disband
3. The Defects Liability period will be replaced by Soft Landingstype processes
4. Design teams will take greater responsibility for long-term
performance of the buildings they create
5. Final payment in future will be on achievement against a
range of Key Performance Indicators
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Thank you
nigel.anderson@bsria.co.uk
rod.bunn@bsria.co.uk
gary.clark2@atkinsglobal.co.uk