The green guide to specification : an environmental profiling system for building materials and components.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 93) and index.

[Part I] Introduction -- A global issue -- How the Green Guide to Specification was compiled -- How this edition of the Green Guide to Specification relates to other BRE publication and tools -- Previous editions of the Green Guide to Specification -- Bre Environmental profiles of construction materials, components and buildings -- The green guide to housing specification -- BREEAM -- ENVEST -- Ecopoints and weightings-- Green procurement -- Life Cycle assessment -- Sources of LCA data in the green guide to specification -- Environmental issues -- Climate change -- Fossil fuel depletion -- Ozone depletion -- Human toxicity to air and human toxicity to water -- Ecotoxicity -- Waste disposal -- Water extraction -- Acid deposition -- Eutrophication -- Summer smog -- Minerals extraction -- Embodied energy -- Further information -- How the green guide to specification was compiled -- How the elements were chosen -- How the specification were chosen -- How the green guide environmental ratings were assessed --How green guide summary ratings are generated -- Weightings -- Worked example --Other issues.

[Part II: How to use the green guide to specification] Layout of the element sections -- Functional unit -- Building Pie Charts -- Summary rating range -- Significant environmental issues for elements -- Ratings tables -- Using the ratings -- The importance of different elements -- arrangement of the building elements.

[Part III: Green Guide ratings] High mass elements -- Upper floors -- Ground Floors and substructure -- Insulation -- External walls -- Superstructure -- General comments on external walls -- Insulation -- Division of external wall specification inot subsections -- Traditional forms of cavity wall construction -- Rainscreen claddings -- Cladding and masonry construction -- Cladding and framed construction -- Rooofs --Insulation -- Division of roofing specifications into subsections -- Flat roofs -- Traditional pitched roofs -- Low Pitched roofs --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 -- Loadbearing partitions -- Non loadbearing partitions -- Proprietary and demountable partitions --Suspended ceilings and ceiling finishes -- Doors -- Other materials and elements -- Internal paint finishes -- Insulation --All insulation (Including those using HCFCs) -- Zero ozone depletion potential (ZODP) insulations -- Landscaping: HArd surfacing -- Landscaping: Boundary protection.

[Part IV: Appendices]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 materialusing 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.

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