Skip to content

Green Guide to Specification, Fourth Edition

Product Code/ISBN: 9781405119610
$146.95

Like its predecessors, this Fourth Edition of The Green Guide to Specification provides designers and specifiers with easy-to-use guidance on how to make the best environmental choices when selecting construction materials and components.

It is more comprehensive than its predecessors; it contains more than 1200 specifications used in six types of buildings:

  1. Commercial buildings such as offices
  2. Educational buildings such as schools and universities
  3. Healthcare buildings such as hospitals
  4. Retail
  5. Residential
  6. Industrial

The Guide provides robust information to assist decision-making by translating numerical life-cycle assessment data into a simple A+ to E scale of environmental ratings, enabling specifiers to make meaningful comparisons between materials and components.

The performance of each specification is measured against a range of environmental impacts, including climate change, toxicity, fossil fuel and ozone depletion, levels of emissions and pollutants, and mineral and water extraction. The principal building elements covered are floors, roofs, walls, windows, insulation and landscaping.

The Green Guide to Specification is an essential tool for architects, surveyors, building managers and property owners seeking to reduce the environmental impact of their buildings by informed and responsible selection of construction materials and components.The publication provides significant additional detail which is not available from the Green Guide Online.

This includes:

  • Greater background information on the Environmental Profiles methodology and the Green Guide
  • Green Guide ranges for each element and building type, presented graphically
  • Typical replacement intervals in years
  • Embodied CO2 figures
  • Impact category ratings presented alongside Green Guide Summary Rating
  • Recycling data
  • Extensive Index