The green guide to specification - Jane Anderson

Like its predecessors, this fourth edition of The Green Guide toSpecification provides designers and specifiers witheasy-to-use guidance on how to make the best environmental choiceswhen selecting construction materials and components. It is morecomprehensive than its predecessors; it contains more than 1200specifications used in six types of building:

Commercial buildings, such as offices

Educational buildings, such as schools anduniversities

Healthcare buildings, such as hospitals

Retail

Residential

Industrial.

The principal building elements covered in this edition ofThe Green Guide to Specification include:

Floors

Roofs

Walls

Windows

Insulation

Landscaping.

The performance of each specification is measured against arange 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 robustinformation to assist decision-making by translating

numerical life-cycle assessment data into a simple A+ to E scaleof environmental ratings, enabling specifiers to make meaningfulcomparisons between materials and components.

The Green Guide to Specification is an essential tool forarchitects, surveyors, building managers and property ownersseeking to reduce the environmental impact of their buildings byinformed and responsible selection of construction materials andcomponents.