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GBE DeTox
GBE DeTox
About:
GBE DeTox uses a number of existing databases with detailed information on individual materials and chemicals to identify the worst offenders and identify other materials to consider for their replacements.
The manufacturer must then experiment with the alternatives to find the optimum performance with lower impacts.
This process can help in the REACH Regulation drive to remove unhealthy chemicals from manufacturing.
GBE Marginal Analysis to understand the relative impact of all the individual ingredients or parts e.g. products, packaging, inputs, outputs, plastics, chemicals,
GBE Individual Impacts Calculation and disclosure of individual impacts used in literature and calculations e.g. Embodied Carbon, Global Warming Potential, Sequestered Carbon
GBE Product Improvement Using Marginal Analysis GBE assist the manufacturer to improve the product by minimising quantities of high impact ingredients or packaging and replacing them with lower impact materials or energy sources.
GBE EPD Environmental Product Declaration:
LCA are based on hard and fast facts based on actual quantities recipe percentages and known material impacts, usually from ‘cradle’ (excavation from earth, extraction from plantations, etc.) to factory gate after manufacture.
EPD add onto the LCA from Factory Gate to Grave (including: construction, in use phase and end of life, landfill, recovery of energy (combustion) or nutrients (composting)) all of which is outside the realms of facts since they all occur in the future and based on current normal or best practice and some speculation.
GBE PASS Product Accessory System Screening
GBE PASS is used to screen out the materials that have the highest environmental impacts and more importantly to identify the materials that have least impact and have a substantial contribution to make in use.
GBE PASS is used to select the Products that are then promoted in GBE Product Pages
Results of GBE LCA and GBE EPD can be recorded in GBE Product Data Sheet schedules and GBE Robust Specification clauses.
All of these results can be recorded in BIM-ready GBE CAD files promoted from GBE Product Pages
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
4th March 2013 – 1st December 2018
GBE DeTox
Images:
Fig. 1 REACH Website
Fig. 2 ChemSec Website
Fig. 3 SIN Substitute It Now Website
Fig. 4 ECHA European Chemical Agency Website
Fig. 5 ToxList Website
Fig.6 EWC European Waste Catalogue
Fig. 7 GBE Appendix EWC
GBE DeTox
See Also:
GBE Jargon Buster
- BIM
- CAD
- ECHA
- EPD
- EWC
- LCA
- REACH
- SIN
- SVHC
- Allocation
- BIM-ready GBE CAD files
- Chemicals
- Chemicals Secretariate (ChemSec)
- ChemSec
- Cradle (excavation from earth, extraction from plantations, etc.)
- Cradle to factory gate
- Embodied Carbon
- Environmental Product Declaration
- European Chemicals Agency
- European Waste Catalogue
- Global Warming Potential
- Factory Gate to Grave
- GBE EPD
- GBE LCA
- GBE PASS
- GBE Product Pages
- GBE Product Data Sheet
- GBE Product Improvement
- GBE Robust Specification
- inputs
- impact
- Individual Impacts
- Life Cycle Analysis
- Marginal Analysis
- outputs
- packaging
- Product Accessory System Screening (PASS)
- plastics
- Products
- REACH Regulation
- Sequestered Carbon
- Substitute It Now (SIN) List
- Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC)
GBE CPD
- Architect’s don’t need LCA
- GBE PASS
