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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
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GBE Sources
I acknowledge: the following for the idea and some of the content of this Chronology.
- AJ Architects Journal
- BBA British Board of Agrément
- BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
- EHP Hadley Centre
- Estates Gazette 10 Jan 98 Environmental Liability The Muck Stops Here By Tim Smithers and Nic Seal.
- European Project for the ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA)
- Friends Provident’s Literature “Stewardship Ethical Investment, Acting on your Principles”
- Future Build 2020 Poster 31/10/2019
- Guardian Newspaper
- Mauna Loa Laboratory
- NASA
- Autotrader 2021
- numerous other bibliography
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
1999 – 21st June 2023
See Also:
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- GBE Chronology Sustainable Development 2021 28 pages PDF of DOCX
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
1999 – 21st June 2023