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The green guide to housing specification : an environmental profiling system for building materials and components / Jane Anderson, Nigel Howard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Watford : BRE, 2000.Description: vi, 40p. : ill. ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9781860813764:
  • 1860813763
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.47
Contents:
[Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction] -- Why this book? -- Information presentation within The Green Guide -- Environmental issues covered in The Green Guide -- How Green Guide ratings are assessed -- Summary ratings -- Weighting the importance of environmental impacts -- Sources of LCA information -- Recycling -- Reclaimed or recycled materials -- Embodied energy Costs -- Replacement intervals -- How the elements were chosen -- Using The Green Guide to Housing Specification -- Timber
[External walls] Framed wall construction -- Cavity and solid masonry wall construction
[Roofing] Pitched roof construction -- Flat roof construction
[Ground floors] Concrete ground floor construction -- Suspended timber ground floor construction
[Upper floors]
[Windows]
[Internal walls] Internal partitions -- Party walls.
[Kitchens] Worktops -- Cupboard units
[Refurbishment: external and internal wall insulation] Bespoke timber cladding systems -- Dry cladding systems -- Insulating render -- Internal wall insulation -- Polymer-modified cementitious render systems -- Polymeric coating systems -- Traditional render.
[Insulation]
[Landscaping] Boundary protection -- External surfacing: hard and soft
Appendix 1: Life-cycle assessment -- Appendix 2: Environmental issue categories -- Contacts and further information -- Key references.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 720.47 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 51410

"BRE 390."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-40).

[Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction] -- Why this book? -- Information presentation within The Green Guide -- Environmental issues covered in The Green Guide -- How Green Guide ratings are assessed -- Summary ratings -- Weighting the importance of environmental impacts -- Sources of LCA information -- Recycling -- Reclaimed or recycled materials -- Embodied energy Costs -- Replacement intervals -- How the elements were chosen -- Using The Green Guide to Housing Specification -- Timber

[External walls] Framed wall construction -- Cavity and solid masonry wall construction

[Roofing] Pitched roof construction -- Flat roof construction

[Ground floors] Concrete ground floor construction -- Suspended timber ground floor construction

[Upper floors]

[Windows]

[Internal walls] Internal partitions -- Party walls.

[Kitchens] Worktops -- Cupboard units

[Refurbishment: external and internal wall insulation] Bespoke timber cladding systems -- Dry cladding systems -- Insulating render -- Internal wall insulation -- Polymer-modified cementitious render systems -- Polymeric coating systems -- Traditional render.

[Insulation]

[Landscaping] Boundary protection -- External surfacing: hard and soft

Appendix 1: Life-cycle assessment -- Appendix 2: Environmental issue categories -- Contacts and further information -- Key references.

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