Directories of Recycled Building Products BRE Seminar 26th May 04

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Directories of Recycled Building ProductsBRE
Seminar 26th May 04

• Norman Beddington
• Ecological Development

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Drivers for Producing Directories

• Need for succinct information on products
  -sustainability pressures from government
  (BREEAM) and Housing Corporation
• Need for classification, brief details, and links
  to more detailed info
• Need for reliable info on standards, of
  recycled content, sustainability claims - esp,
  important

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Types of Directory 1

• Sourcing of bulk materials - AggRegain, BREMAP
• AggRegain - case studies, info on recycled
  aggregates and directory of suppliers
• BREMAP - listing of companies engaged in waste
  management processing, search-able by GIS
  database aims to facilitate re-cycling

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Types of Directory 2

• Aimed at re-use of materials - especially
  architectural salvage - SALVOMIE
• General directories aimed at architects,
  surveyors and other specifiers - Ecoconstruction
  (providing basic info) and Greenpro (providing
  deep green info assessment)
• Servicing specifiers by providing specification
  clauses with additional info on environmental
  impact and case studies - NGS (National Green
  Specification)

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Types of Directory 3

• General product directory providing additional
  info on policy and funding issues - Waste Watch
  directory, now funded by WRAP
• All directories available only in electronic form
  as database, with exception of Waste Watch, also
  available in printed form

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Ecoconstruction

• Funded by Sustainable Homes and SITA
• Primarily a resource for housing associations
• Contains over 200 recycled products in brief
  form, with details of, and electronic links to
  manufacturers
• Also contains guidance and case studies

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Ecoconstruction (cont)

• Plans to extend database to all environ-
• mentally-preferred products
• Will have specifications and links to NGS
• products
• Surveys of manufacturers and specifiers
• carried out

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Directories and Recycled Building Product Network

• How can market for recycled construction
• products be expanded ?
• How can specifiers best be reached and how can
  directories be marketed
• Do directories contain right type of info -
• listings, case studies guidance ?

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Directory websites

• www.aggregain.org.uk
• www.bremap.co.uk
• www.salvomie.co.uk
• www.ecoconstruction.org
• www.greenpro.net
• www.greenspec.co.uk
• www.recycledproducts.org.uk