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Green Guide to specification 3rd edition EP57 [20008]

  £52.50
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.

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; Green Guide ratings; High-mass elements; Upper floor construction; Ground floors and substructure; 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; Substructural floor systems/floor surfacing; Windows and curtain walling; Internal walls and partitioning; Load bearing partitions; Non-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 4: BREEAM case study; Appendix 5: differences in environmental issues from previous editions; Contacts and further information; Key references; Index.
Green Guide to specification 3rd edition EP57
Author:  Building Research Establishment (BRE)
Date Published:  January 2002
Document Type:  Books|Non-catalogue
Format:  Books
ISBN:  0632059613
ISBN13:  9780632059614
Pages:  112
Publisher:  Blackwell Science Ltd
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