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• GBE Industrial Revolution to 1999 (Chronology) G#961 N#981
• GBE 2000 to date (Chronology) G#1019 N#1038

Brian Murphy ONC HNC Construction BSc (Hons) PG Dip Architecture (Dist) (Part-time NLP)

• Specification Consultant (39 years)

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Part 1

• The increased requirements in Building, Health and Safety and other Regulations covering ‘Green’ materials and products in design.

Part 1 Regulations and ‘Green’ materials

• You could be forgiven for thinking the title of the paper suggest that there is legislation out there encouraging the use of ‘Green’ materials
• I do not think this is quite the case
• but what there is is legislation that:
• controls, in some cases discourages and sometimes bans the use of
• shall we say ‘Violet’ material,
• As a consequence we are having to consider other materials
• which are ‘less Violet’
• and in some cases ‘Green’ materials.

‘Violet’ Materials

• ‘Violet’ chosen as it is at the opposite end of the spectrum from ‘Green’
• meaning:
• ‘any material that is unfriendly to humans or the environment
• or whose performance diminishes in use or over time’

Regulations V vested interest

• What we now need is Legislation that drives us towards ‘Green’ options
• rather than just more of the ‘Violet’ materials we use already
• I wonder if the next round of Building Regulations will help?
• will vested interest resist change or prevent it from happening.

Obstacles

• Regrettable there is also legislation out there
• and policemen that patrol its zone of influence,
• that will continue to maintain technical barriers (despite European Treaties)
• making their use less easy than their familiar but ‘Violet’ counterparts

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Threads:

• There are a number of different threads running through this chronology:
  • International Forum
  • Publications, Guidance and Methods
  • Ethical Financial Activity
  • Legislation
  • Green Movements
  • Product Quality
  • Legislation & ‘Green’ awareness
  • International Forum establish the targets for all of us to achieve
  • Guidance and methods shows us how
  • Ethical Finance shows us all by example
  • Legislation is implemented by governments when the populous fails to respond
  • Green movements start when governments fail to act in a responsible manner

© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
1999 – 21st June 2023

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© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
1999 – 2nd September 2021

See Also:

GBE Chronology

• GBE Chronology Sustainable Development 2021 PDF

GBE Jargon Buster

• Chronology
• Green Chronology

GBE CPD

• Green is the Colour
• ChronologyTo1999 9H38 PDF handout
• Chronology S307 PDF show
• GBE Chronology Sustainable Development 2021 28 pages PDF of DOCX

© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
1999 – 21st June 2023

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