The Green Guide: BREEAM Specification, 4th edition [196358]

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The construction industry has an important role in the development of a more sustainable approach to the environment. The 'polluter pays' principal together with a raft of recent UK and EU environmental legislation has forced designers, developers and owners to be alert to the environmental impact of their buildings. This Guide is part of the BREEAM programme and uses a widely accepted environmental profiling system that compares the environmental performance of construction materials and components. Although primarily a guide to greener specification, "The Green Guide to Specification" also gives data on cost and durability to ensure that environmental issues are considered in the wider context of specification choices. Contents: Introduction; Background to The Green Guide to Specification; How The Green Guide to Specification was compiled; How to use The Green Guide to Specification; The Green Guide rating; High-mass elements; Upper floor construction; Ground floors and sub-structure; Insulation; External walls; Superstructure; Insulation; Traditional cavity wall construction; 'Rainscreen' claddings; Cladding and masonry; Cladding systems and framed construction; Roof Construction;Insulation;Flat roofs;'Traditional' pitched roofs; Low-pitched metal deck and roof cladding; Medium and Low-mass elements; Floor finishes and coverings; Hard floor finishes; Soft floor coverings; Sub-structural floor systems/floor surfacing; Windows and curtain walling; Internal walls and partitioning; Load bearing partitions;Proprietary and demountable partitions; Suspended ceilings and ceiling finishes; Doors; Other materials and elements; Internal paint finishes; Insulation; All insulations (including those using HCFC's); Zero ozone depletion potential (ZODP) insulations; Landscaping: hard surfacing;Landscaping: boundary protection; Part IV Appendices; Appendix 1: general notes relating to the use of specific materials and particular environmental issues; Timber; Indoor air quality issues; CFC's, HCFC's and HFC's; PVC; Appendix 2: worked example of the generation of a Green Guide rating for an internal wall specification; Generation of the environmental profile for the specification; Generation of The Green Guide rating for each environmental issue; Generation of the summary rating for each specification; Appendix 3: the production of a BRE environmental profile for a material using the BRE environmental profiles methodology; Inventory analysis; Impact assessment; Appendix: BREEAM case study; Appendix 5: differences in environmental issues from previous editions; Contacts and further information; Key references; Index.

Author:	Anderson, Jane\|Shiers, David
Date Published:	February 2009
Document Type:	Books
Format:	Hardback
ISBN:	1405119616
ISBN13:	9781405119610
Pages:	208
Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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