Sustainability Checklists are one of the primary tools to be used in incorporating, assessing the effect of, and demonstrating compliance with sustainability criteria in each project phase. Checklists provide ‘buy in’ from the project team members and end users and can be modified for specific projects if required, with the agreement of the Project Manager for the specific project using these guidelines.They are to be used throughout each project phase. For each checklist, the Project team is to assign the following:
Outcomes: The extent that the sustainable features can be applied to the project.
Sign-off to confirm that relevant project team members agree to the incorporation of identified sustainable features. Reasons why this agreement may not have been achieved are to be noted here. The members identified in this section are accountable for the outcomes being achieved.
There is a column indicating the ‘technology type’ for each measure. These are assigned one of the following letters:
Standard practice -S ‘business as usual’ type approaches which should be considered as ‘good design and engineering’ and/or items that are of extreme importance for the Department, and other stakeholders.
Leading practice –L ‘best practice’ ideas, which may have been proven in other facilities but are not considered mainstream and/or items that are of high importance for the Department, and other stakeholders.
Demonstrational Technology –D technologies which are not yet proven, or which may be implemented to raise community awareness, and/or of some importance for the Department, and other stakeholders.
There’s also a column indicating ‘simple payback’ which is to be completed by the project team for Cost plan purposes.
ESD Checklist (pdf, 47 KB)