STATEMENT ON THE GREEN GUIDE FROM BRE GLOBAL AND THE CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION

摘要

Since the launch of the revised and updated version of BRE's Green Guide (owned by BRE Trust) in June 2008, it has become clear that it has made much more impact in the market place than its predecessors. This is partly because the Green Guide is referenced in the Government's Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) and also because of the increasing profile of sustainabilityin all construction issues. Significantly, CSH has a mandatory credit ensuring that no dwelling has more than two E-rated elements, therefore, requiring all new dwellings to be fully assessed if they wish to obtain a CSH rating. Both CSH and BREEAM are non-prescriptive systems that focus on the whole building's overall sustainability performance. For the embodied impacts of materials, both CSH and BREEAM use the Green Guide as the means to rate materials for credits.