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Green Building Guidance
The Green Guide to Specification provides guidance for specifiers, designers and their clients on the relative environmental impacts of over 250 elemental specifications for roofs, walls, floors etc.
Now available online, this accessible and reliable information will be of great assistance to all those involved in the design, construction and management of buildings as they work to reduce the environmental impact of their properties.
It is a pre-requisite within the Code for Sustainable Homes for building products to have a specific Green Guide rating. EPS products have a summary rating of ‘A+’ and this is an important factor in achieving an ‘A’ rating for installed systems.
The green credentials of EPS are unsurpassed. EPS has…
- An Ozone Depletion Potential of zero
- A Global Warming Potential of zero
- It is CFC and HCFC - free
- It’s Life Cycle Analysis results in an exceptional Ecopoint Score from the BRE Environmental Profiling process
- It is 98% air
- 100% recyclable, as it can easily be removed as complete boards or part pieces, prior to re-introducing it to the manufacturing process
- and EPS products can contain up to 50% recycled content
http://www.thegreenguide.org.uk/
