The Green Guide Explained - BRE Group
The first edition of The Green Guide in 1996 aimed to provide a simple 'green guide' to the environmental impacts of building materials that would be easy to use and soundly based on numerical data. The Green Guide is now part of BREEAM, an accredited environmental rating scheme for buildings.
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