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

โœ Scribed by Jane Anderson, Nigel Howard


Publisher
BRE
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Leaves
47
Category
Library

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โœฆ Table of Contents


Contents......Page 3
Foreword......Page 5
Why this book?......Page 7
Environmental issues covered......Page 8
Summary Ratings......Page 9
Recycling......Page 10
Costs......Page 11
Using The Guide......Page 12
Timber......Page 13
Framed walls......Page 14
Cavity and solid walls......Page 16
Reclaimed materials......Page 15
Reclaimed materials......Page 17
Pitched roofs......Page 18
Flat roofs......Page 20
Insulation......Page 19
Insulation......Page 21
Concrete ground floors......Page 22
Suspended timber ground floors......Page 24
Substructure......Page 23
Insulation......Page 25
Ratings......Page 26
Floor decking......Page 27
Ratings......Page 28
Glazing......Page 29
Internal partitions......Page 30
Party walls......Page 31
Worktops......Page 32
Cupboard units......Page 33
Specification of cladding......Page 34
Ratings......Page 35
Ratings......Page 36
Impacts of insulation......Page 37
Boundary protection......Page 38
Landscaping: external surfacing......Page 40
Boundary protection......Page 39
Impact assessment......Page 41
How impacts are normalised......Page 42
Human toxicity......Page 43
Further information......Page 44
Key references......Page 45
Also available from BRE......Page 47
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Publishing information......Page 2


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