BRE Global Certified Environmental Profile
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.
The Environmental Profiles Methodology assesses environmental indicators that reflect impacts occurring globally, regionally and locally - in the air, in water and on the land, impacting humans and the environment. These impacts are assessed under a range of issue categories and normalized 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.
Learn more: BRE Global Certified Environmental Profile website
Conformity assessment | How is compliance with this ecolabel's standard ensured?
Conformity with BRE Global Certified Environmental Profile's standard is verified by an independent organization (third party).
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Applicants are certified against the ecolabels’s criteria before using the label
Managing organization | Who manages this ecolabel?
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Non-profit
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Organization type: Originally we were called the Building Research Station, and later the Building Research Establishment. But since the work of BRE has, for many years, extended beyond just buildings; because we undertake testing and consultancy as well as just research; and because we are no longer a Government Establishment (we became a private company in 1997) we now call ourselves simply ‘BRE’.
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Year ecolabel est. 2001Classification | Who, what, where
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Building products
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Czech Republic Denmark France Netherlands United Kingdom United States
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Last updated: 20 January 2012
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