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Reclaim Product Material Passports (CPD)
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Reclaim Product Material Passports

• ZWS & SEDA Circular Economy Event
• 24^th October 2019
• BrianSpecMan Murphy

This Presentation on GBE:

• Event on GBE website at:
• Circular Economy ZWS SEDA (Event) G#27448
• CPD on GBE website at: (This Page)
• Reclaim Product Material Passports (CPD) G#30129

GBE Legend

• — = Linear
• O = Circular

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Current Doctrine

• ‘Profits Before People Before Planet’
• Fiduciary Rules Okay
  • Obligation to make a Profit for Shareholders
  • At the expense of everything else?
• ISO 26000 invented to curb excesses
  • CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Often Greenwash Plaster
  • Ethical Trading
• Created as a guide
  • Became a Benchmark

Sustainable Definitions

• People:
• Sustainable = inconsistent inadequate definitions
• GBE:
• Sustainable = Environmental eroded by profits

GBE Alternative Definition for Sustainability

• Healthy Environmental Resourceful Appropriate Competent Effective or Ethical Yardstick
• = HERACEY™
• More later…
• GBE HERACEY™ (Jargon Buster) G#1429 N#1399

Constructions Demolition Excavation CDE Waste Stats:

• Pre 2004 110 m tonnes/annum waste in UK
  • (400m tonnes/annum consumed)
  • 25% = ¼ wasted
• SWMP checklist and SWMP Regs. 2004
  • at best 78m tonnes/annum waste
• After red tape deregulation of SWMP Regs.
  • Today: 120m tonnes/annum waste
  • (420m tonnes/annum consumed)
• £150m/annum over-ordered, never needed

EU Initiatives

• Directives
• Innovation driver
  • Product Passports
    • (over a decade ago?)
• Circular Economy Drive
  • ‘Still in its infancy’
    • October 2019
• White goods reparability Directive
  • October 2019

Complimentary Directives or initiatives

• H&S: CHIP, CDM, COSHH, RoHS, REACH,
  • Blatant breaches: UK H&S and REACH have no teeth
• LCA: Life Cycle Assessments
  • Manipulated by stakeholders (Manufacturer Associations)
  • To make violet materials look grey or even green
• PEF: Product Environmental Footprinting
  • Being manipulated by stakeholders to act like LCA
• OEF: Organisation Environmental Footprinting
• LCC: Life Cycle Costing
  • In the hands of expensive consultants
  • Or in expensive software
  • We need to make our own calculators
    • They are not easy
    • Have you seen the equations?

EU Funded projects

• Horizon 2020
  • BAMB Buildings as Materials Banks (recent) includes database of products
• Interreg
  • MF&H Makers, Fixers and Hackers (recent past)
  • FCRBE Facilitating Circulation of Reclaimed Building Elements (current)
  • SB&WRC Sustainable Bio and Waste Resource for Construction (just finished)

Global awareness has finally risen

• 1, 2, 3 or 4 decades late (never too late)
• Trashed Film (to invited professionals and MPs 2013)
  • If you have an audience get the CD to show
• David Attenborough Blue Planet
  • Ocean Plastics, straws in particular 2019
• Greta Thunberg (started 2018 – Embraced Globally 2019)
  • Unite behind the Science
  • Behavioural Change campaign
    • Government, Business & Individuals
• SchoolStrike4Climate
  • Asked the Adults to join them
    • Declare Architects
    • Declare Construction
    • Declare Education
  • Architects CAN Carbon Action Network
  • Architects Can’t, don’t have the know-how
    • TGR facilitating CPD by PHT TRA BBA AECB ASBP CL CLR etc.
    • to fill the knowledge gap

RIBA Plan of Work

• Circular diagram
  • Circular information-only flow
• 0-7 = — Linear Building
• 8 = Repurposing and reuse of existing
• 9 = Deconstruct, reclaim, MP, reuse, reassemble
• 0-9 = Ο Circular Building
• Specification Development RIBA Plan Of Work 2013 (CPD) G#1339 N#1326
• 2019 an update is due that might address circular economy

RIBA Education Committee

• Out of touch with Climate Emergency
  • Universities not leading the way
  • Few unite behind the science
  • Very few being taught science
• Aspiration: Architectural Association
  • Philosophical BS
  • Fantasy Graphics
• Never engage with reality
  • let alone solve the problems

Post-Declare Initiatives

• Aecom
• Planning a material exchange database
• But some already exist
• What will be different?
• Material Exchange 4 Specification (CPD) G#308 N#309
• Material Exchange (Navigation) G#912 N#932

Product Passports? Materials Passports?

• Wrong name?
  • ‘Products’ in first life
  • With a Specification or Certificate and Delivery Ticket
• Materials Passport?
  • ‘Materials’ or ‘Resources’ in second life
  • With a Material Passport and a Delivery Ticket
  • Avoiding a Waste Transfer Note
• Unless EPR applies

Extended Producer Responsibilities (EPR)

• Loan or leasing of products or materials
  • Never owned, just borrowed for a while
  • Electric Vehicle (EV) batteries
  • More and more cars and therefore EVs
  • Eventually building parts too
    • Or houses built like caravans: Craig White
• Remanufactured by original manufacturer or a dedicated specialist
• Returned for recycling

Purpose of Materials Passports (MPs)

• Help improve EU wide Resource Efficiency
• To help reduce excessive waste in Construction Sector
• Divert materials from Landfill
• To facilitate reuse of materials in Construction
• Provide a level of confidence that products are fit for purpose in 2^nd use
• Of merchantable quality: may/not be relaxed
  • Frost damaged roof tiles more valuable that pristine
• Provide guidance on their properties and application
• Provide a great deal of information about original materials
  • Probably more than the OEM or OPM ever did
    • Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
    • Original Product Manufacturer (OPM)

Goals & Benefits of MPs

• About:
  • Circular materials, components and building products (CM,C&BP)
  • which might also be healthy, environmental (HE)
• Keep or increase residual value of CM,C&BP over time
• Create incentives for manufacturers, processors, suppliers to offer HE CM,C&BP
• Enable circular product design, materials recovery (MR) and chain of possession (CoP) partnerships (CoPP)
• Support materials choices in reversible building design projects
• Reduce eco-footprints
• Make it easier for developers, facility manager, and renovators to choose HE CM,C&BP
• Facilitate reversed logistics of reclaim CM,C&BP
• Assessment of future materials flows
• Management of supply and demand
• Assessment and forecast of potential secondary raw materials
• Systematic recovery and utilisation strategies can be identified and further developed
• Strategic positioning of plants (e.g. recycling, materials traders, material exchanges, etc.)
• Strategic supply chain management
• Link and make relevant data available for assessment on various hierarchy levels
• Reduce the cost by managing resources rather than managing waste
• Develop a sustainable life cycle management of CM,C&BP and buildings
• Eliminate waste and reduce the use of virgin resources
• Improve the quality, value and security of materials supply
• Provide a tool to move from linear system to a circular system
• (BAMB, MH & WL, ‘19)(GBE BRM ‘19)

Other benefits of MP on Circular Economy

• Helps convert from Linear Economy
  • Via a Segregating for Recycling Economy
  • To a Reclaiming for Circular Economy
• Where we value stuff (e.g. natural materials)
  • Where we waste nothing
  • Were nothing ends up in landfill
• Everything is upgraded, repaired, refurbished,
  • to extend its first life and subsequent lives
• Everything is remanufactured and returned to use
  • or repurposed for other uses

Material Passport contains:

• Physical Properties
• Chemical Properties
• Biological properties
• Material Health
• Unique Products & System Permutation Identification
• Design and production
• Transportation and Logistics
• Construction: Identify materials and Product locations in buildings and in elements
• Use and Operate Phase maintenance information
• Disassembly and Reversibility
• Reuse and Recycling

GBE Product Data Collection

• 1250 data points
  • say 600 collected for any manufacturer and product
• 35 Document outputs
  • E.g. Specification, Method statement,
  • Including Reclaim Product Material Passport

BIM PDT Templates v Flexibility v external data

• Templates developed by BSRIA CPA and Sector Stakeholders
• Stakeholders include Manufacturer Associations that want ‘dumb PDT’
• LCD Lowest Common Denominator
  • For level playing field
  • Least information necessary
• BIM PDT Product Data Templates
  • Do not make a Robust Specification
  • Might just make an NBS Specification
  • Prone to Substitution
  • Not fit for purpose
  • Cells need to link to external data: e.g. Specification or LCA
• Manufacturers want to promote
  • Unique Selling Point (USP)
  • Or multi-functional properties
  • Multi-application materials
  • These help to make Robust Specifications and defend against substitution

Provenance

• Comes from antiques world
  • Where from, who made it, when, whom owned it,
  • Applies to Architectural Salvage
• Audit trails back to source
  • Theft Alerts Helps avoid Theft or retrieve stolen goods
• Materials Stewardship for reclaim
  • Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for sustainable new timber
  • Chain of Custody (CoC) for sustainable new timber
  • EU timber regulation (EUTR), for legal new timber
• Chain of custody (Chain of Possession in BAMB)
  • Linear: from source to supplier/processor/site
  • Circular: from first life to next use
• Can mean a clean bill of health or warn of limitations
  • Avoiding Carbonated concrete or Alkali Aggregate Reaction “Concrete cancer” joining and contaminating Recycled Concrete Aggregate and spoiling recipe

Blockchain technology

• (minus the BitCoins)
• Any individual or multiple transaction up/down the demand/supply chain
• Robust data that is not possible to alter
• Visible to all parties at any time
• All data in place permanently
• Can be added to as supply chain extends
• Audit trails without long searches first

Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)

• Ex Pharmaceuticals Sector
• Big Data, Open Data,
• Better Information Management (BIM)
• Product Data Templates (PDTs)
  • Product Data Sheets (PDS)
  • Individual cells cannot hold many data sets so each cell can become search engines or hyperlink to other sources
  • Or DOI link to correct information sources
• Act a bit like SEO 301 Redirects
• DOI Tracking and linking to on-line data:
  • That might move within a website to a new URL
  • But should remain current
• Audit trails to numerous end addresses
  • as stuff subdivides into variations of the original
  • as stuff divides and disperses to different end uses

Industry Sector Response to Material Passports

• Manufacturer Association (UK) Federations (EU)
• Looking after Business as Usual
  • Rejected Reclaim Product Materials Passports
  • In case they erode profits from sales of new goods
• Its already happened with the remanufactured carpet sector
• Just like the oil and plastic sector threatening
  • The plastics recyclers
  • Ocean plastics collectors

Design Profession Response to Material Passports

• Silence?
• Didn’t event know it was being discussed?
• Architectural education wrong focus:
  • Philosophical BS
  • Fantasy Architecture
• College Knowledge
  • Out of date
  • Learning Curve followed by Forgetting Curve
  • Few opportunities to apply knowledge, so forget

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Material Passport: SWOT

• Strengths:
  • More data to allow Appropriate and Competent Reuse
• Weaknesses:
  • Reused aesthetic still a turn off for some
  • Reuse structural competency in doubt
  • Data stored in MPs needs to be kept up to date
  • Dead data in Excel files not maintained:
    • blocked the development from 3D CAD to BIM
• Opportunities:
  • Enable others to engage
  • 900 timber visual inspectors in sector
  • Some Structural Engineers will visual inspect steels
    • Steel looses shape in fire before loosing strength
• Threats:
  • Manufacturers do not want to reduce sales of new

Material Passports: Features & Benefits

• Features                                           Benefits
• Product/Material Properties       Reapplication Confidence
• Application properties                 Competent Reapplication
• Manufacturer’s Reputation enhanced  Satisfied Users

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Circular Ο Building

Appropriate Design Response to MP and Circular Economy

• Rationalisation
• Simplification
• Robustness
• Modularisation

Rationalisation

• Layering
  • Material, Component, Product, System, Building
  • Site, Structure, Skin, Services, Space plan, Stuff
• Rationalising component life expectancy
  • for consistency in whole building
  • to layers of the building
• CLM Component Life Manuals
  • HAPM, SPON, (no longer)
  • BSI KM, BBA C, ETA, longer life
  • BBA Certificates states Life expectancy

Simplification:

• Of details and fixings
  • to permit ease of assembly and disassembly
• Fix ability and un-fix ability
  • Nuts and bolts in preference to rivets,
  • Clamps in preference to welding
  • Screws (undoable) v nails (easier)
  • Clamping battens
• Removable
  • Nuts and bolts (easy)
  • Screws (electric screwdriver)
  • Nails (labour intensive)
• No permanent or no undoable joining
  • No glues, adhesives, welding, rivets
  • Weak mortar (lime based) hold apart/together
  • low tack adhesive patch (carpet tiles)
  • Papier Mache (recycled paper and water)
• Exploit:
  • Gravity
    • Insulation into joist space
  • Ballast
    • Loading down roofing membrane
  • Friction/Tight fit
    • Capping battens
    • Cover battens
    • Soft grippy parts (rubber seals)
  • Mechanical key
  • Interlocking
    • Timber post and beam with dowels
    • Lego
    • Steko load-bearing timber blockwork
  • Compression and expansion
    • Insulation into rafter space
• Locational:
  • Encapsulation within panel void
  • Insulation into stud space between linings
  • Injected or blown insulation
• Interlocking
  • Mortice and tenon
  • Yurt Rafter connection to apex ring
• Minimise cutting and drilling of parts
  • Minimise weakening of parts
• Tension Integrity
  • Post and fabric membrane or wires
• Anchoring:
  • Foundations
  • Duck bill anchors
• Tied:
  • Yurt rafter fixed to top of wall

Robustness

• Toughness of materials at connections
  • Natural History museum temporary exhibition space
  • Barrel vault canopy
  • Transparent Plastic pyramids
  • Connected at base
  • Connected by timber post and aluminium connectors at apexes
  • Robust blokes manhandling pieces meant stress fractures in plastics at fixing points

Modularisation:

• Understanding the size of stuff
  • Working with it, not against it
• Modular with minimal offcuts
  • In first life and subsequent lives
• No off-cut waste in first life
  • No redundant non-modular pieces in subsequent life
  • No more off-cut waste in subsequent lives
• Exponent:
  • Walter Segal, Self build Architect: Framed & infill, practice no waste
  • Water Segal Method
    • Walter Segal Approach
  • WSSBT Walter Segal Self Build Trust
  • Geoff Stow of BIY Build it Yourself
  • Architype
  • Robin Hiller Forever green projects Ltd.
• LEGO
  • Load-bearing walls or framed and infill

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HERACEY™ expanded for MPs

• MPs can contain enough information to address any of all of the following:
  • Healthy
  • Environmental
  • Resourceful
  • Appropriate
  • Competent
  • Effective or Ethical
  • Yardstick

Healthy:

• Natural Materials and ingredients
• Begs question: why not screening in place of LCA (more later)
• Low to No Chemistry
• Low to No Off-gassing
• Healthy for all along whole supply chain

Environmental:

• Screening of Chemicals
  • CHIP, CDM, COSHH, RoHS, REACH, SVHC, VOC
• LCA Life Cycle Assessment
• Low to No Petrochemical
• Low to No Embodied Carbon
  • More Sequestered carbon
• Low to No Embodied Energy
• Low to No Embodied Water
• Low to No Process emissions
• Low to No Land, Water and Atmosphere pollution
• Less erosion by excavation or from extraction

Resourceful:

• More resource efficient design
  • Awareness and approach
  • Changing bad habits, taught or acquired
  • Less centre lining and cutting perimeters
  • Less Geometry for its own sake
  • Less clashing geometries for fun
• More layering less interfaces
  • Structures and Services Clashes
  • Services and Building Clashes
  • Building and Structure Clashes
• More understanding of size
  • More Design to suit
  • Less off-cutting waste
  • Bigger components generates more waste
  • Smallest components can make no waste
• More reuse avoids more new
• Less waste to landfill

Not resourceful

• Consequence of ignoring modules
• Non-modular: Off-cut waste (if using material module)
• Wasted material: Off cuts
• Redundant Parts: Redundant preparation work
• Higher cost: if waste taken into account

Appropriate:

• Material properties for:
  • Manufacturing process
  • Application
  • Durability
• Desire to own and care about stuff
  • Happy making (e.g. natural materials)
• Component + Accessories = Assembly or System
• Performance
  • Fit for Purpose

Not Appropriate:

• WRAP Waste Resource Action Programme
• Increase recycled content %
• Catalogued Substitutions
• Ignored important properties
• Unintended consequences

Competent:

• As manufacturer intended
• Correct application
  • in building
  • in elements
  • for exposure conditions
  • for durability
• Tried, tested and certified
  • Used within tested limits
  • BBA may break rules but sets new ones

Effective:

• Much more than efficient
  • Usually diminishing returns on big improvements
• Step changes in performance
• Modular sizing
  • Modular fixing
  • No off cut waste
• Improve the performance of another adjacent component
  • E.g. Membranes or boards around insulation
• Value Engineering stuff into projects not out
  • Holistic view, multi-functional material replaces many
  • Not cost-cutting individual components
  • Not substitution (unless REACH SubsPort)
  • Not joining the race to the bottom
  • Not Kamikaze tendering
• Removal of fasteners from timber
  • Big powerful magnets can extract them
  • Saves damaging saws and drills
• Removal of preservatives
  • Use Vac-Vac in reverse to remove most of preservative from softwood
• Application orientation on record
  • Reapply materials in same orientation to avoid risk of frost damage

Ethical

• United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for all
  • not profits at any expense
  • HERACEY for all along the demand and supply chain

Yardstick

• Benchmarking
  • Setting agenda: brief targets
  • Setting new standards for way forward
  • Setting new trading Models
• Not pay-back periods
  • But carbon-back periods

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Complimentary Ο activities

• Salvo
• SWMP
• Material Exchange
• Others

Salvo

• Architectural Salvage
• Reuse not recycling
• Sector Gateway
• Buying and Selling
• Salvage Protocol
• Pre-Alteration Pre-demolition Audits
• Theft Alerts

Site Waste Management Plan

• Checklists
• Workshops
• Tools
  • Envirowise (Packaging calculator)
  • BRE (SmartWaste tools)
  • WRAP (Waste and ResEff tools
• Calculators
  • GBE Waste Cost® Lite
  • Envirowise Packaging Calculator

Material Exchanges

• Virtual and real
  • Earth Exchange (gone)
  • Aggregain (gone)
  • CIRIA (recycled)
  • BREMAP (gone)
  • Salvo (Architectural Salvage)
  • BioRegional Reclaim
  • %%%

Ο Others

• ICE Demolition Protocol
  • (invented in Scotland) In 2 parts
• Waste Aware Scotland
  • Segregation colour codes
• Zero Waste Scotland
  • Wordy design Guides
  • Architects can’t read
  • RIBA Library Policy: Picture books not reading books
• WRAP
  • Publications and tools
  • No longer interested in Construction
  • Legacy persists but not so visible
• National Industry Symbiosis Programme (NISP)
  • Haves and Wants
  • Joined up Businesses
• BRE Smart Waste Data logging
• HAZRed Hazardous Waste Reduction (information)
  • (Now Scottish Website)

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How + where used in Ο Building

• Structural Frame
  • Bolted/clamped connections
• Loadbearing Walling
  • brick/block and lime mortar
• Panel construction
  • Framed and Insulated
  • Solid
• External Claddings
  • Wall, roof, soffits
• Internal linings
  • Floor, wall, ceiling

Ο Products + Ο Accessories = Ο Systems

• Elements or Sub-elements
  • Products or Materials
    • Plus Accessories
    • Equals Systems
      • System Permutations
  • Combination greater than the sum of the parts
• Essential
  • XRef between parts to obtain whole

Accessories include:

• Fixings
• Spacers/levelling shims
• Fastenings
• Isolation (electrolytic/bimetallic)
• Tapes (Air tightness, etc.)
• Sealants (avoid gunned, use strips)
• Adhesives (avoid where possible)
• Ballast
• Etc.

Products + Finishes

• Potentially complicates reuse
• Scratched finished need repair
• Sacrificial coatings help use or reuse
• Corrosion protection helps disassembly by bolts or other fasteners
  • (not shearing heads off screws)
• Corrosion protection helps prevent discolouration of fastener or material

Ingredients + Recipe = Materials

• Resources
  • Materials
• Mixes
  • Recipes
  • Conglomerates
• Materials
  • Components
    • Elements

Materials + Bonding = Composites

• Materials
  • Ingredients
• Layers
  • Matrix
• Binder
  • Bonding
    • Composites
• Systems
• Build-ups

Bonding materials in layers = Build ups

• •       Leveling
• •       Smoothing
• •       Decorating
• •       Protection

How used in O building

• • Bolted or clamped steel frames
  • Lime Mortar jointed (not cement)
  • Layered components in elements
    • Overlap tiling
    • Overlap boarding
  • Framed and open jointed Rain-screen cladding
  • Visible fixings not hidden (weatherboarding)
  • Avoiding interlocking e.g. T&G joints
  • Interlocking Mortise and tenon Joints, removable dowels
  • Buried or surface mounted metal connectors
    • Special angles for fasteners into end grain
  • Nailed or cleated/screwed light timber frame panels
  • Riveted or crimped light steel frame
  • Zed Factory spacing brackets for consistent spacing for modular

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© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
26th October 2019 – 1st November 2019

Reclaim Product Material Passports (CPD)
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Event Organisers

ZWS Zero Waste Scotland

SEDA Scottish Ecological Design Association

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GBE CPD

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GBE CPD Files to View on line

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GBE CPD Product Passports ZWS SEDA 261019 9H6 PDF Handout to print

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GBE CPD Reclaim Product Material Passport ZWS SEDA 291019 9H7 PDF Handout to print

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© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
26th October 2019 – 29th October 2019

Reclaim Product Material Passports (CPD)
See Also:

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GBE Links

• SEDA
• WAS
• ZWS
• Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA)
• Waste Aware Scotland (WAS)
• Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS)

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GBE Jargon Buster

• HERACEY (Jargon Buster) G#1429 N#1399

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GBE Events

• Circular Economy ZWS SEDA (Event) G#27448
• Cradle 2 Cradle Circular Economy New Language of Carbon (Event) G#14667
• The Future of Waste Management & Promoting a Circular Economy in the UK (Event) G#13817

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GBE CPD

CPD Topics N#478

• CPD About Specification G#560 N#580
  • 29 CPD Seminars about Specification
  • 3 handouts

Seminars:

• Material Exchange 4 Specification (CPD) G#308 N#309

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CPD Manufacturer’s

• GBE LitEdit LoftZoneCPD A02BRM100117 9H5 PDF handout
• GBE LitEdit LoftZoneCPD A02BRM100117 S39 PDF Show
• GBE LitEdit LoftZoneCPD A02BRM100117 PPTX Show with working hyperlinks

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GBE Manufacturer

• Eco Answers Ltd t/a LoftZone G#13890

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GBE System

• StoreFloor G#13287

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© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan *
26th October 2019 – 30th October 2019