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About:

GBE Collaborative Services:

Services between Green Building Encyclopaedia (GBE) and Solution Providers (anyone with an Environmental Solution to a construction related Problem).
GBE provide information to Designers and Specifiers,
In order to do that, GBE work with Solution Providers
To get the best out of their information, rationalise it and deliver it effectively for Designers and Specifiers.

Solution Providers are:

Manufacturers
Suppliers/Merchants/Importers/ Agents/Distributors
Applicators/Installers
Servers/Service Providers
Specialist Consultants
Training/Skills Courses
Content Authors
Tool/Calculator Authors

Solutions to Problems

that have a place in GBE website and might include:

Materials
Products
Accessories
Sub-systems
Systems
Elements
Buildings
Services

HERACEY™

You may have a Solution to a Problem but may need help to promote it’s:

Healthy characteristics
Environmental credentials without straying into ‘Greenwash’
Resourcefulness
Appropriate characteristics for particular applications
Technical Competencies
Effectiveness at its application

Technical & Environmental Focus:

Improve the focus of technical and promotional literature
Reorganise and rationalise this information
Extract, collate, organise, datasets
Emphasise technical and environmental datasets
Provide Contract-ready Specification clauses
Promote your products on GBE website to a very large dedicated audience
Distribute design, specification and guidance information to users.
Offer a wide range of related services.

Contact:

For these and other services offered here:

BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy at GBE
Contact details: See top right corner of this page or home page
GBE Team G#1021 N#1040 Who we are what we do
GBE Team (Navigation) G#2721

Background:

GBE is here to serve designers and specifiers, in order to do that we need to support manufacturers to help them to provide the information that the designers and specifiers need.

Manufacturer’s Website content and promotional literature is usually a mixture of optimistic promotional and technical information that takes time to assimilate into designs and convert into specifications, if time is short the specifications may be short on detail and weak against the inevitable substitution processes in contracts.

GBE have 40 years of experience of extracting the essence out of product information to make robust contract specification clauses; now we are turning our efforts to support manufacturers to highlight their products and information about them to emphasise their green credentials without creeping into greenwash, and turn it into:

GBE Product Pages:

Broken down into 6 Core Pages all linked to each other so there is 21 times more likelihood of the product being found, they are: Products, Accessories, Systems, Manufacturer, Suppliers, Installers

GBE Website is also being developed as an encyclopaedia of green construction to help educate the users in green design, green materials and green methods of construction, so they can understand the principles, can adopt the products and are more likely to and more capable of defending them in value engineering, cost cutting and specification substitution exercises.

Listed and linked in both directions

Each topic of the GBE Green Building Encyclopaedia has its own page and wherever a topic is relevant to the product then their pages are listed and linked so they are instantly available without searching for them.

Encyclopaedia information related to products and applications

They include:

GBE Checklist,
GBE Jargon Buster,
GBE Defects,
GBE Solutions,
GBE Rules of Thumb, etc.

Assessing products

GBE PASS Product Accessory Systems Screening which endorses products and informs the content of:
GBE Product Page which can contain many of the following download files:
GBE Product Data Sheet downloadable from GBE Product Page

and informing GBE Product Data Sheet and CAPEM Product Data Sheet

GBE Outline Specification downloadable from GBE Product Page
GBE Robust Specification Clauses usable in an NBS specification, downloadable from GBE Product Page
GBE Robust Specification Work Sections if none exists in NBS
GBE Robust Specification Appendix

Extra services available for consideration all downloadable from appropriate GBE Product Page

GBE Echo Manufacturer’s Self Declaration confirmed by GBE as Independent 3rd Party.
GBE EndOfLife End of life options for products, systems, assemblies, buildings
GBE Product Passport supports End of Life Reclamation and Reuse
GBE Green Building Specification Preliminaries and Work Sections with/out manufacturers products clauses
GBE BEST Building Element Screening Test which informs:
GBE CAD Computer Aided Drawing 2D & 3D modelling of Products and Construction

Available from GBE BIM with GBE Robust Specification and CAP’EM LCA

GBE BIM Building Information Modelling 3D CAD models with BIM capability to which other data can be attached:
GBE Robust Specification
GBE Product Data Sheet
GBE Library will be assembled with manufacturers current promotional and technical literature, certificates etc.
GBE CPD a collection of 1000 seminars to be added; seminars on sustainable construction, materials, methods, specification, procurement, professional practice to which manufacturer’s CPD will be added.
GBE LitAudit Literature Audits increasingly manufacturers promotional literature strays into Greenwash, we offer a service to review literature and highlight these problems. Literature includes Website content, CPD Seminars,
GBE LitEdit Once the literatures Audit is complete we offer to edit or rewrite the content to remove the problems.
GBE Classify Adding classification information to literature to ensure it fits into designer’s information systems
GBE Marketing: Taking the GBE Literature Audits a stage further we advise manufacturers how to promote the environmental characteristics without straying into Greenwash.
GBE Product Database All of the above information will be collected into a single searchable database
GBE Live topical seminar events with corresponding topical exhibitions

GBE Collaborator Services

GBE CollaboratorBandOptions A01BRM140815 PDF Schedule
GBE CollaboratorPriceOptions A01BRM140815 XLSX calculator
GBE Page Schedule and Templates

CAPEM Services

CAPEM LCA Life Cycle Assessment downloadable from GBE Product Page used by GBE BIM summarized in CAPEM EPD
CAPEM EPD Environmental Product Declaration the report from CAPEM LCA
Product improvement Opportunities GBE Marginal Analysis and GBE DeTox

Supplier Services