GBE HERACEY™ Jargon Buster
Healthy, Environmental, Resourceful, Appropriate, Competent, Effective, Yardstick
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GBE HERACEY™ Jargon Buster
About:
Healthy,
Environmental,
Resourceful,
Appropriate,
Competent,
Effective,
Yardstick
- HERACEY™ First announced at EcoBuild 2014
- Sustainability is difficult to define for many people
- HERACEY™ was coined to embrace numerous issues that collectively define Sustainability conveniently.
- In a world where Fiduciary Rules dictates that companies have an obligation to make profits for shareholders
- Fiduciary Rules enables the irresponsible to make #Profits before People before Planet
- HERACEY™ enables a more responsible approach
- If companies are made to annually report on environmental impacts as well as financial performance some of the worst behaviour may be reigned in
Healthy:
- Healthy to manufacture, transport, handle, assemble, construct, mix, apply and cure
- Healthy for growers, makers, menders, fixers, hackers, reclaimers, re-users
- Healthy to be included in a building
- Healthy methods of mixing, cleaning, preparing, priming, bonding, spacing, applying
- Good indoor air quality
- Not harmful to local air quality
- Healthy to maintain, refurbish
- Healthy to demolish, reclaim, reuse, recycle, landfill, incinerate
- Low allergy
- Anti-baterial
- No-Contract reactions (dermatology, rashes)
- Moisture permeable
- Hygroscopic
- Moisture Mass
- Moisture Moderating
Environmental:
- Deleterious material-free
- Low-Zero ODP Ozone Depletion Potential
- Low-Zero GHG GreenHouse Gas
- Low-Zero GWP Global Warming Potential
- CFC-free
- HCFC-Free
- HFC-Free
- HFA-Free
- PFC-free
- REACH SVHC-free
- REACH SIN list-free
- Google Red List-free
- Plastic-free
- PVC-free
- Low-Smoke
- Low-Halogen
- CITES Endangered and Vulnerable species-free
- CHIP-free
- COSHH-free
- CDM compliant
- RoHS compliant
- Carbon sequestration in growth or in production (Carbon lock-up)
- Low Embodied Energy
- Low Embodied Carbon
- Low Embodied Water
- Low-zero emissions to air, land and water
- Low-zero toxicity to air, land and water
Resourceful
- Economically abundant materials
- Renewable materials
- Rapidly renewable materials
- Reclaimed & Reused
- Architectural Salvage
- Construction Reclaim
- Recyclable (uncomplicated e.g. not composites, not conglomerates)
- Recycled (without harmful binders)
- Recycled (without loss of properties – down-cycled)
- Recovery of energy (avoiding pollution with incineration)
- Recovery of nutrients (composting)
- Recovery of materials (not incinerated and lost, not polluting)
- Resource efficiency in production
- Low Embodied & in use Energy
- Low Embodied & in use Carbon
- Low Embodied & in use Water
- Waste efficiency in design and application
- Repairable
Appropriate:
- Properties to achieve ALL the required performance
- Compatible with building use conditions
- Compatible with Location (Earthquake, Flood tolerant)
- Compatible with Climate (Drought tolerant, etc.)
- Genus-loci (plant species)
- Indigenous (plant species)
- Local sourcing
- Traditional trades well understood and reproducible without major skills gap.
- Conservation quality work: compatible materials and resourceful ways of working
Competent:
- Proper Materials (Construction Products Directive) (Building Regulations Regulation 7)
- 3rd party accredited/certified/tested/assessed
- Labels (Green, Healthy, Technical)
- Compatible with adjacent materials
- Compatible with existing construction and its Modus Operandi
- Durable
- Comparable life expectancy (50 or 60 years Normal)
- Component Life Manuals (HAPM, SPON etc.)
- Green Healthy Competent & Labelled
- Deleterious material-free
- Deleterious method-free
- OR Experimental and monitored
Social: (option for HERASY)
- Supports local economy
- Uses local materials and products
- Uses local labour
- Uses craftsmen, artisans,
- Uses hand crafted materials
- Uses cooperative activity
- Reinforces Healthy
- Reinforces Environmental
- Wellbeing
- Avoids fly-tipping
- Supports Local Community
Effective:
- Natural materials
- Bio-based materials (Carbon sequestration)
- Rapidly renewable (Bio-based)
- Simple production
- Minimal manufacturing
- Chemistry-free
- No mixing of biological & technical (Cradle to Cradle)
- Not Efficient (diminishing returns for more added) but Effective (Cradle to Cradle) (Step changes in returns)
- Improves the performance or effectiveness of surrounding, surrounded or adjacent materials
- Designed for easy assembly and easy dismantling
- Easy to reclaim and reuse
- Recyclable & Recycled materials
- Buildings as Materials Banks (BAMB)
- Evidence Based Design
- Calculators
Yardstick:
- Setting standards for future development
- A Benchmark by which others to be judged
- Calculators to determine if targets or benchmarks are met
- GBE Incubator
- GBE PASS Product Accessory System Screening
- GBE Compare Building Product Comparison System
- GBE BEST Building Element Sustainability Test
- GBE Echo Confirmation of Manufacturer’s Self Declaration
(NGS BRM ’14 – GBE BRM ’21)
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
3rd March 2014 – 13th February 2021
GBE HERACEY™ Jargon Buster
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3rd March 2014 – 13th February 2021
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See Also:
GBE Jargon Busters
- Healthy (Jargon Buster) G#1896 N#1753
- Environmental (Jargon Buster) G#1891 N#1748
- Resourceful (Jargon Buster) G#1897 N#1754
- Appropriate (Jargon Buster) G#1894 N#1751
- Competent (Jargon Buster) G#1895 N#1752
- Effective (Jargon Buster) G#1892 N#1749
- Yardstick (Jargon Buster) G#1898 N#1755
Detailed information to help in its delivery, HERACEY™ including:
Product accessory system material assessments
- GBE PASS Product Accessory System Screening
- GBE Compare Building Product Comparison System
- GBE BEST Building Element Sustainability Test
- GBE Echo Confirmation of Manufacturer’s Self Declaration
Dowloadable files:
- GBE Robust Specifications
- GBE CPD
- Health Buildings (CPD) G#259 N#260
- GBE Lectures
- GBE Calculators
- GBE Schedules
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