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CEN - TC/350: A Standardised Approach

This briefing paper provides a review and summary of CEN/TC350 standards - a standardised approach for the delivery of environmental performance of construction products and whole buildings.

Flooring: Towards a Resource Efficiency Plan. 

This scoping study carried out for the Contract Flooring Association (CFA) looks at the current issues of waste and resource efficiency relating to floor surfaces used in the UK. The study examines the waste disposal methods for waste flooring materials and recommends actions for improving these.

Plasterboard: Sustainability Impacts and Initiatives

This evidence study looks at the sustainability of plasterboard through the life-cycle of the product and identifies a number of recommendations for future activities that could be undertaken to further reduce the impact of plasterboard.

Windows: Environmental Impacts and Initiatives

Throughout this evidence study, government and industry stakeholders from across the windows industry and supply-chain have worked collaboratively to identify the environmental impacts and current initiatives for each stage of the life-cycle of window systems.

A guide to recycling commercial construction waste

A simple guide to recycling commerical construction waste.

Code for Sustainable Homes

This booklet explains what the Code for Sustainable Homes is and how it works. It also includes tables showing the criteria that assessors will use to measure achievement of sustainability performance under the Code.

Investing in Sustainability

The report, ‘Investing in sustainability: progress and performance among the UK's listed house-builders revisited’, is part of WWF's One Million Sustainable Homes (OMSH) campaign, the aim of which is to move sustainability from the fringes to the mainstream of UK housing. With regard to waste, most companies are beginning to manage their waste more effectively on site but there is a huge variation in the way waste data is collected and monitored, making it hard to effectively write and implement policy. 

A Guide to  Developing a Sustainability Strategy and Action Plan

A new publication aimed at aiding in developing a comprehensive sustainability strategy has been be made available, for free, to all organisations involved in the housing sector. A 'Guide to developing a sustainability strategy and action plan', provides advice and examples of how to develop a sustainability strategy that covers an entire organisation's remit.

Case studies

A number of the organisations produce best practise case studies. Some examples of these are listed below: