BRE Green Guide Results Announced on PVC-U Windows.
Please note the below press release from the BPF, which has now been issued to the press.
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has now released the results of the long awaited and much anticipated ‘Green Guide to Specification’.
The scope of the online publication covers all planned building categories including commercial, education, health, industrial, retail, and domestic. It also includes all planned building elemental categories of external walls, internal walls, upper floors, ground floors, roofs, landscaping, windows and thermal insulation. Floor finishes will follow but to an extended timeline. On 6th May, to coincide with the launch of the BREEAM 08 methodology, the Green Guide online will be available to BREEAM, Code for Sustainable Homes and EcoHomes assessors. The Green Guide to Specification online will be publicly available on 6th June 2008.
The British Plastics Federation is delighted to officially announce the official results for PVC-U windows:
Commercial: A+
Domestic: A
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) Vinyl’s and Windows Groups have been very active in providing information to the BRE during its recent consultation phase and it is thanks to the continued and combined efforts of the Groups, that we are now seeing the benefits of PVC products in the public arena.
PVC-U windows have an essential role to play in sustainable construction, which the Green Guide has now acknowledged. These results really go to show that the PVC industry’s Voluntary Commitment, Vinyl 2010, is bearing fruit in terms of efficiency gains during manufacturing, whilst also seeing Recovinyl (the recycling arm of Vinyl 2010) register significant increases in post-consumer PVC recycling, with the UK achieving over 42,000tonnes in 2007 – leading the way within Europe.
For further information on the BPF, Vinyl 2010 and the BRE Green Guidecontact Tim Marsden (tmarsden@bpf.co.uk).
