The Green Guide to Specification: Fourth edition

The Green Guide to Specification has assessed the relative environmental performance of over 250 materials and components, providing a quick and easy way for designers and specifiers toc onsider their options.

A wide range of alternative specifications are provided for: walls, floor systems, floor finishes, roofs, windows, doors, ceilings, paints, insulation, and landscaping. Environmental ratings are based on Life Cycle Assessment using the methodology developed by BRE with funding from DETR and support from a wide range of construction manufacturing trade associations. Individual manufacturers can now obtain certified Environment Profiles which allow their products to be compared to the generic profiles. The Green Guide is used for BREEAM schemes to provide materials credits.

About the Author

Jane Anderson

Jane Anderson is the Field Chair for BA Architecture and Interior Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. She has worked in Germany and the UK and her built works include a low-energy headquarters building for a software company and a variety of educational building types such as a music school, sports hall and nursery. Her research into architectural education began when participating in the experimental tutor training course at the University of East London. It continued at Sheffield University where she taught and collaborated with Ruth Morrow and others on the publication Building Clouds, Drifting Walls, that described the experience of teaching and learning in their first year architecture course.

David Shiers

David Shiers, Department of Real Estate and Construction, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Featured Reviews

Building Engineer, September 2009

The fourth edition is fantastic. Having not seen the other three I can't categorically say it's the best - but the fact there are 1,200 specifications, and in the first print there were 200, means it's a fair assumption to make.

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