Waste and Recycling DTI PII Project

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Waste and Recycling DTI PII Project
About:

Project:

Funding Scheme: Partners in Innovation

Funders DTI, 50% Funding, BRE, ASWS & NGS Contributions in Kind 50%

Total cost: £180,000

Lead Partner:

BRE Centre for Waste Management, Gilli Hobbs, Katherine Adams

Sub Partner:

Architectural Specification Writing Services: Brian Murphy,
National Green Specification: Sandy Patience

Scope:

Waste Management Specifications &
Recycled Content Product Pages

Date: 01/01/2004 to 31/03/2006

Duration: 2 years

Fund Observer: Ian Cooper

Steering group: BIFFA, TGR, SALVO, Green Building Price Book, Bioregional Reclaimed, etc.

Press Release

NGS WINS GOVERNMENT FUNDING

The National Green Specification (NGS) in conjunction with the Building Research Establishment Centre for Resource Management (BRE CfRM) has secured Dept. of Trade and Industry (DTI) funding as part of the Partners in Innovation Fund (PII). The funding will be dedicated to supporting the new Waste/Recycling project jointly launched by the two organisations. Matching funding was successfully secured by Katherine Adams of the BRE.

Participants and supporters of the project include:

Tarmac Group
Aggregate Industries (UK) Ltd.
Urban Mines Ltd.
SALVO Partnership
Peabody Trust
Anne Thorne Architect Partnership
BIFFA
Excel Industries
UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development (UK CEED)
Green Building Price Book
GAIA Research
Keane Demolition Ltd.
London Remade
Architectural Specification Writing Services

NGS director Brian Murphy commented ” This funding represents a significant boost to the provision of specifications and information related to recycled building components to the construction industry.”

April 2003

Inputs:

Project Plan

EcoConstruction.com Recycled Product Database content (no longer)

WRAP QUICK Wins publications

GreenSpec Website

NGS Outputs:

BRE Project Sheet

BRE NGS Project Sheet

4500 recycled content product into spreadsheet

250 GreenSpecProduct Pages added to GreenSpec Website (DTI PII funding acknowledged on page footers at time)

45 Hours of GBE CPD Powerpoint files

on waste management and
recycled content products
9 GBS Specification Preliminaries & Works Sections
15 Supporting Appendix

Update of BREMAP website (No Longer) (but not acknowledged on the website)

EcoConstruction.com (No longer) updated with links to GreenSpec Product Pages and Specifications

Project Reports

End of Project Seminar (Lead Partner permitted sub-partner 20 minutes to present 2 year project)

Invitation

Press Release

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