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An introduction
Demands for environmental improvements within construction are
growing rapidly from all sides including building designers and
their clients – as well as government with its ‘Code
for Sustainable Buildings’ and ‘liveability’ initiative
which are also expected to take a broad view.
Sustainability’ remains
difficult to define or apply quantitative measures to. Various
guides are available comparing the ‘embodied impact’ of
different materials or constructions – notably the BRE ‘Green
Guide to Specification’ – but they recognise that,
in many situations, doors have a limited effect on the overall
embodied impact of a building, being only a small proportion of
the overall mass.
However, the wider environmental characteristics
of different door types can be substantial. There are also other
issues to consider such as adoption of factory-assembled doorsets
to improve environmental efficiency, techniques to maximise
operational design life and, particularly, use of verifiable sustainable
timber sources.
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