In addition, the organisation must have a documented system for its purchasing process and the approval of all of its suppliers who provide input materials for the product being assessed. The system must be designed to implement the criteria with respect to the BES 6001 standard. The organisation must also maintain a list of all the suppliers that provide constituent materials for the assessed product. GreenBookLive is a free to use online database designed to help specifiers and end users identify products and services that can help to reduce their impact on the environment. What is included ?

Unlike many other schemes BES 6001 is not a sector specific standard; any material, product or product group can be certificated against the standard. However, in some cases individual construction product sectors have made use of the BES 6001 scheme as a framework and have developed their own sector scheme which is fully compliant and equivalent to BES 6001. An example is the Eco-Reinforcement scheme for steel reinforcement in concrete – please see www.eco-reinforcement.org. A]n enduring, balanced approach to economic activity, environmental responsibility and social progress’A wide range of products and services, from commercial building products and services to domestic energy efficiency products can be found within GreenBookLive. This includes listings of trained and licensed BREEAM Assessors and qualified BREEAM Accredited Professionals. It includes listings of products and installers that are certified under BRE Global's Microgeneration Certification Scheme, and products that are assessed under our rigorous Environmental Profiles and Responsible Sourcing schemes. Green claims

ABREEAM Assessorunderstands the process andtechnical issues covered by the schemefor which theymust be qualified and licensed.Their role is to interpret the requirements of each issue in relation to a scheme, communicate these requirements to their client and liaisewith theproject team to collate the evidence which needs to be submitted along with the assessment report.

Claims about the environmental performance of building products are easy to make but difficult to substantiate without a transparent measuring system. BREEAM covers a multitude of disciplines andno single Assessor is necessarilya 'technical'expert in all the areas covered by BREEAM.Licensed Assessors are kept up to datewith the latest developments in the schemes through a monthly communication direct from BREEAM. The Environmental Profiles Methodology assesses environmental indicators that reflect impacts occurring globally, regionally and locally -in the air, in water and onthe land, impacting humans andthe environment.These impacts are assessed under a range ofissue categories andnormalised by reference to European data. They are weighted to generate a measure of environmental impact as a proportion of the annual impact of a European citizen. Why certify? One very good reason to seek BES 6001 certification comes from the UK Contractor’s Group(who represent over 30 leading construction companies who together account for a third of the UK construction industry turnover). The UKCG state that:

GreenBookLive is the unique reference source and online listing of environmental products and services. The process, following the acceptance of the BRE’s proposal and receipt by BRE of full certification fees, is:

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Environmental profiles measure the impacts of a construction material, product or building system throughout its life – not only during its manufacture, but also its use in a building over a typical building lifetime. This includes its extraction, processing, use and maintenance and its eventual disposal. All products with BES 6001 certification from BRE can carry the BRE Global Certification Mark for responsibly sourced products certified to BES 6001:

UKCG members support and give preference to procuring products which are able to demonstrate compliance with a recognised responsible sourcing scheme, certified by a third party’As a minimum, 60% of the constituent materials (by both mass and volume) in the assessed product shall be traceable down the supply chain, through appropriate chain of custody evidence, to the organisations which: and companies with BES 6001 certified products can use the BRE BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing Badge of Recognition on marketing material, letterheads etc: