Disclaimer
Terms and Conditions
1 The ‘Information’
1.1 The ‘Green Building Specification’ is a service provided by NGS (National Green Specification). These terms and conditions may be revised from time to time without prior notice.
1.2 This draft specification was prepared for NGS ‘Green Building Specification’ by Architectural Specification Writing Services (ASWS).
1.3 The specification clauses in this document (the ‘Information’) are based on past project work, information gathered from seminars, workshops and assimilated from published or unpublished verbal and written information.
1.4 The Information will continue to be developed and current files will be maintained on the NGS website at www.greenspecdownload.co.uk
2 Copyright Notice
2.1 Copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the Information shall remain at all times the property of NGS and you shall acquire no rights in any such material except as expressly provided in this Agreement.
2.2 You are permitted to reproduce any part or parts either alone or in conjunction with your own material for the purposes of internal use in the your office, or for inclusion in any drawings or contract documents used or intended to be used in connection with a building contract where you are contracting party, or in connection with which you are engaged by one of the contracting parties in a professional capacity.
2.3 You shall not use, sell, assign, rent, sub-license, loan, or otherwise deal in any way in the Information or any interest in it except as expressly provided herein.
3 Disclaimer
3.1 Whilst NGS endeavours to ensure that the Information is correct, it is provided on an “as is” basis, without warranties of any kind, and no warranty, express or implied, is given as to accuracy, currency or completeness and NGS does not accept any liability for any error or omission. NGS shall not be liable for any third party claims or losses of any nature including, but not limited to, loss of profits, direct, indirect, special or consequential damages arising from a third party’s use or inability to use this Information.
3.2 All users and others must verify the contents of the Information and ensure that its application is effective to communicate what is required by them and that the Information is fit for their intended use which has not been specified by NGS.
3.3 NGS accepts no responsibility for the content on any internet website to which a hypertext link from this specification exists. The links are provided “as is” with no warranty, express or implied, for the information provided within them.
4 General
4.1 If any part of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable the validity of the remainder of the Agreement will not be affected.
4.2 This Agreement is covered by the Laws of England and Wales.
Addenda
NBS compatibility
National Building Specification (NBS) is the industry standard specification library.
NGS’s Green Building Specification (GBS) is designed to complement NBS.
NGS’s GBS clauses are written specifically to address issues of environmental sustainability.
NBS adopts and develops the Construction Project Information Committee’s (CPIC) classification system Common Arrangement of Work Sections (CAWS) 1998 edition.
GBS adopts and develops the CPIC and NBS versions of CAWS to enable integration into NBS-based specifications.
GBS adopts NBS clause numbering to provide for easy clause assimilation.
Links:
CPIC: http://www.cpic.org.uk
CAWS: http://www.cpic.org.uk/en/publications/common-arrangement-listing.cfm
NBS: www.thenbs.com/
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27th June 2014 – 28th November 2018
