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GBE Supporter Membership Benefits
GBE Supporter Membership Benefits
About:
Green Building Encyclopaedia (GBE) is a work in progress, an ever expanding website containing detailed information about competent buildings and appropriate building materials – from a resource efficiency and green perspective.
Your financial support is invaluable to the rapid development of the content reducing the development time from 40 years to 5.
| Annual Membership Subscription | Normal Fee | Reduced Fee for first Year |
| Student | £30 per year | £15 for first year |
| Public/Self-builder | £50 per year | £25 for first year |
| Small Company/Professional | £100 per year | £50 for first year |
| Big Company/Practice/University | £500 per year |
£250 for first year |
GBE Benefits from Download and Annual Fees
Download and Annual Membership Subscription payments will:
- Support GBE’s ambition to speed up the creation of the website content (reduce 40 years to 5 years)
- Much is readymade, needs formatting and loading.
- Others still to be written, need to engage specialists to write it
- Enable engagement of other specialist contributors for more joined up interdisciplinary approach
- Enable engagement of graduates to help upload files and process 32,000 anticipated pages
- Enable the development of more tools, calculators, GBE 2D View and other features on the website
Schedule of Benefits for differing levels of support by user
| Benefits | Not signed-up, no annual fee, non-member |
Signed-up, no annual fee, member |
Signed-up, annual fee, supporter member |
| GBE Encyclopaedia content: Pages, Posts & Free Samples | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GBE Monthly eNewsletter | No | Yes | Yes |
| GBE Download Files: Free | Some | Pay/download | Yes |
| Membership Listings | No | No | Yes |
| Stakeholder steering group membership option | No | No | Yes |
| Collaborator Page upgrade option | No | No | Yes |
Not signed-up, no annual fee, non-member benefits
Non-members see most if not all of the GBE Encyclopaedia Pages and Posts for free as they progressively get added to the website:
- GBE Encyclopaedia Entries:
- Currently over 1800 Pages and Blog Posts
- All joined up, listed and linked, so you do not have to search for related content
- Ready to upload: 11,000 Pages and Posts
- Planned so far: it is going to be vast, with at least 32,000 Pages and Posts
- Currently over 1800 Pages and Blog Posts
- GBE Jargon Buster: 9000-terms including:
- Abbreviations, acronyms, words, phases and classifications
- Themed clusters of terms e.g. BIM, Flood, Biodiversity, Carbon, Energy, materials, etc.
- GBE Environmental Checklists:
- By trades and elements as well as wider issues:
- Things to avoid, reduce, replace and alternatives to consider in their place, reclaim, reuse, recycle
- New Build, Decent Homes, Refurbishment, Energy Retrofit, GreenDeal, Home Improvements.
- GBE Issue Papers:
- Addressing everyday problems with detailed analysis, GBE Solutions and GBE Solution Providers
- Overheating: is the first, it affects over 20% of housing stock and many other buildings
- GBE ‘Joined up information’:
- GBE Issues > Problems > Solutions > Solution Providers > Products > Accessories > Systems
- 100s of manufacturers, 1000s of products
- Every ‘GBE page’ is listed and linked to all relevant pages of the GBE Encyclopaedia
- No need to search for anything, it comes to you.
- GBE BEAD: Building Element Assembly Descriptions
- 892 readymade elemental assemblies
- GBE BEAP: Building Element Assembly Performance:
- GBE BEST: Building Element Screening Test: critique of performance characteristics
- GBE Free Samples: to show the quality of download documents to encourage becoming a Supporting Member
- Manufacturers pay for their documents to be uploaded, so their information is free to download by all users.
- Listing and some previews of Download files that require a fee per download.
Signed-up, no annual fee, members benefits
By signing-up gives visitors access to additional features:
All of the Pages, Posts & Free Samples listed in column 1 and:
Sign up for GBE Monthly eNewsletter by email:
- Detailing additions and updates: in preceding month listed and linked into website
- Pages and Posts, Downloadable files, Portfolio Images, etc.
GBE Files: Additional files will be downloadable for a fee per document download: (price range)
- £0.88 (PDF handouts 9 slides/page)
- £1.88 (PDF show files)
- £8.88 (editable documents to modify and show PPT, PPTX, PPS).
- Non-supporters will pay the download fee
GBE Supporting Members: GBE Supporting Membership Fee means no download fee
The following are planned so far, others will be added as they arise:
- GBE Robust Specifications:
- Product Specifications created by GBE at its own expense, not by manufacturer
- GBE CPD Seminars: 1000 in 30 topic areas related to:
- Environmental Construction, Specification, Procurement & Professional Practice
- Handouts to read, PDFs to show or PPTs for educators to modify and show
- GBE University Lectures: from BSc, Post Graduate Diploma and MSc courses
- Includes: Series on Elemental Construction e.g. Ground Floor Construction (the most downloaded file!)
- GBE Readymade specifications that save time and money
- GBE GBS work sections: missing from NBS
- GBE GBS Robust Specification Product clauses or work sections
- GBE Calculators:
- GBE Equations, GBE Generic Material DataSets & GBE Product DataSets
- GBE Image Portfolio:
- Building Visits, Building Details, Section Details
- GBE Labels, Logos, Identification sets
- GBE CPD Covers, Slides, Book Covers
- GBE Videos
Signed-up, annual fee, supporter member benefits
GBE Supporting Member Benefits will include the following, progressively loaded onto the website as your membership fee enables faster development of the content:
- All of the Pages, Posts & Free Samples listed in column 1 and:
- Sign up for GBE Monthly eNewsletter by email and:
- All of the GBE Download files listed in column 2 for free and:
- GBE Supporting Membership listing and mention in newsletter: with contact details and website on GBE website
- Classified to enable finding of equivalent organisations, or enable finding of project collaborators
- Those offering a specialist environmental service can consider upgrading to a Collaborator Page
- Access to BrianSpecMan via helpline/forum for advice/guidance on environmental construction issues.
- Outcomes turned into more anonymous Pages or Posts for all to benefit
- Opportunity join stakeholder steering group to influence the order of development.
Until the site is launched formally, we can offer you a 50% reduction on annual supporter membership:
- Student: £30/year reduced to £15 for first year
- Public/Self-builder: £50/year reduced to £25 for first year
- Small company/professionals: £100/year reduced to £50 for first year
- Big company/practice/university: £500/year reduced to £250 for first year
| Join Early 50% discount |
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But if you really don’t want to know, you will see an ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of the email.
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Or Email back, message, text or call me on 01733 238148 to register.
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
4th October 2015 – 26th December 2015
