The Green Guide to Specification
by Anderson, Jane; Shiers, DavidEdition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-03-09
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Like its predecessors, this fourth edition of The Green Guide to Specification provides designers and specifiers with easy-to-use guidance on how to make the best environmental choices when selecting construction materials and components. It is more comprehensive than its predecessors; it contains more than 1200 specifications used in six types of building:- Commercial buildings, such as offices- Educational buildings, such as schools and universities- Healthcare buildings, such as hospitals- Retail- Residential- Industrial.The principal building elements covered in this edition of The Green Guide to Specification include:- Floors- Roofs- Walls- Windows- Insulation- Landscaping.The performance of each specification is measured against a range of environmental impacts, including:- climate change- toxicity- fossil fuel and ozone depletion- levels of emissions and pollutants- mineral and water extraction.The Green Guide to Specification provides robust information to assist decision-making by translatingnumerical life-cycle assessment data into a simple A+ to E scale of environmental ratings, enabling specifiers to make meaningful comparisons between materials and components.The Green Guide to Specification is an essential tool for architects, surveyors, building managers and property owners seeking to reduce the environmental impact of their buildings by informed and responsible selection of construction materials and components.
Author Biography
Jane Anderson, Building Research Establishment, Centre for Sustainable Construction, UK
David Shiers, Department of Real Estate and Construction, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Table of Contents
| ntroduction | |
| ackground to The Green Guide to Specification | |
| ow The Green Guide to Specification was compiled | |
| ow to use The Green Guide to Specification | |
| he Green Guide rating | |
| igh-mass elements | |
| pper floor construction | |
| round floors and sub-structure | |
| nsulation | |
| xternal walls | |
| uperstructure | |
| nsulation | |
| raditional cavity wall construction | |
| 'Rainscreen' claddings | |
| ladding and masonry | |
| ladding systems and framed construction | |
| oof Construction | |
| nsulation | |
| lat roofs | |
| 'Traditional' pitched roofs | |
| ow-pitched metal deck and roof cladding | |
| edium and Low-mass elements | |
| loor finishes and coverings | |
| ard floor finishes | |
| oft floor coverings | |
| ub-structural floor systems/floor surfacing | |
| indows and curtain walling | |
| nternal walls and partitioning | |
| oad bearing partitions | |
| roprietary and demountable partitions | |
| uspended ceilings and ceiling finishes | |
| oors | |
| ther materials and elements | |
| nternal paint finishes | |
| nsulation | |
| ll insulations (including those using HCFC's) | |
| ero ozone depletion potential (ZODP) insulations | |
| andscaping: hard surfacing | |
| andscaping: boundary protection | |
| Part IV Appendices | |
| general notes relating to the use of specific materials and particular environmental issues | |
| imber | |
| ndoor air quality issues | |
| FC's, HCFC's and HFC's | |
| VC | |
| worked example of the generation of a Green Guide rating for an internal wall specification | |
| eneration of the environmental profile for the specification | |
| eneration of The Green Guide rating for each environmental issue | |
| eneration of the summary rating for each specification | |
| Appendix 3 | |
| Inventory analysis | |
| Impact assessment | |
| Appendix: BREEAM case study | |
| differences in environmental issues from previous editions | |
| ontacts and further information | |
| ey references | |
| ndex | |
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