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Meeting the requirements of the Building Regulations – dwellings
Published in Ray Tricker, Samantha Alford, Building Regulations in Brief, 2022
Within the UK, there are many product certification schemes that certify compliance with the requirements of a recognized standard or document that is suitable for the purpose and material being used. Certification bodies that approve such schemes will normally be accredited by the UK’s national accreditation body (UCAS).
Green Smart Buildings for Smart Cities
Published in Pradeep Tomar, Gurjit Kaur, Green and Smart Technologies for Smart Cities, 2019
Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Gurjit Kaur
The practice of verifying that a certain product has qualified or passed various performance tests is known as product certification. These certifications are proposed to plan and approve a product meeting a specific standard and offering benefits for the environment. Numerous certification programs and product tags verify products on the basis of lifecycle parameters; they are programs with multiple features. These parameters comprise recycled content, air, water emissions and energy usage from disposal and also manufacturing. Another highlight usually depends upon a single attribute, for example, chemical emissions, water and energy that directly influence indoor environmental quality (IEQ).
Meeting the requirements of the Building Regulations – Dwellings
Published in Ray Tricker, Samantha Alford, Building Regulations in Brief, 2017
Within the UK, there are many product certification schemes that certify compliance with the requirements of a recognized standard or document that is suitable for the purpose and material being used. Certification bodies that approve such schemes will normally be accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UCAS).
Blockchain and the related issues: a review of current research topics
Published in Journal of Management Analytics, 2018
A decentralized IoT device management system can be built to set device permissions and communication control. Device permission settings and device control instructions are recorded in the blockchain, and the device is authenticated by the key. The system can protect the rights and thesecurity of IoT devices, as well as data privacy, to improve system security (Boudguiga et al., 2017). The BaaS management system will guarantee device permissions, data integrity, and invariability in a decentralized, peer-to-peer platform, BPIIoT, operating on-demand cloud-based manufacturing, smart diagnostics and machine maintenance, traceability, product certification, customer-to-machine and machine-to-machine transactions, and registry of assets and inventory, etc. (Bahga & Madisetti, 2016). Heterogeneous devices and actuators are integrated in IoT systems. Huh, Cho, and Kim (2017) applied Ethereum and a smart contract platform to communicate, synchronize, configure, and manage IoT devices. The feasible system not only saves energy and costs, but protects against denial of service attacks.
Design for deconstruction using a circular economy approach: barriers and strategies for improvement
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2020
Olugbenga Akinade, Lukumon Oyedele, Ahmed Oyedele, Juan Manuel Davila Delgado, Muhammad Bilal, Lukman Akanbi, Anuoluwapo Ajayi, Hakeem Owolabi
Another impeding factor identified from the study is that the existing market for salvaged products (recycled and reusable) is not large enough. This finding confirms existing research works that existing market for salvaged products is marginal (Addis 2008; Gorgolewski 2008; Tatiya et al. 2017; Tingley and Davison 2011). Evidence suggests that the success of building deconstruction and the reuse of components depend on the supply/demand dynamics of salvaged materials (Godichaud et al. 2012). The supply and demand dynamics include the source control, availability of distribution point for material sales, quality assurance, product standardisation and specification, product certification, ease of material transportation, availability of storage facilities, access to market, etc. This means that the provisioning of a sustainable route to market for salvaged material is important. In the same way, the opening of the market will require that salvaged components are also specified during design. However, enough attention is not given to the specification of salvaged components at the design because of the current negative perception about recovered materials. The participants in FGI-2 argued that: “Do you think that people will design buildings that could be deconstructed when industry practitioners have huge concerns about the specifying recovered materials? [FGI 2]”. Another barrier to the adoption of DfD is the concerns about the aesthetic degradation of recovered products. It was highlighted that clients place emphasis on the forms and aesthetics of building and specifying recovered materials could compromise both.
Upscaling bio-based construction: challenges and opportunities
Published in Building Research & Information, 2023
Barrie Dams, Dan Maskell, Andrew Shea, Stephen Allen, Valeria Cascione, Pete Walker
An important step towards upscaling an emerging product is gaining certification and accreditation, plus dealing with the potentially large costs involved. Products based on emerging bio-based materials currently sitting outside of accreditation will not be specified due to concerns with material properties, especially conformity to fire resistance regulations. Key to addressing this issue is gaining data from research and experimentation such as mechanical properties, fire, acoustic properties, and durability of the new materials in line with existing standards, allowing as close a comparison to conventional materials as can be made with emerging bio-based materials. Certification based on data is crucial for the confidence of clients, contractors, and insurers to work with bio-based materials and finance projects. ‘Too many products are sitting outside accreditation. A contractor won’t use them because of the risk.’ (Interviewee 4)Previous bio-based material studies have highlighted the importance of product certification for the development of a bio-based economy (Ladu & Blind, 2017), (Morone et al., 2021). It was confirmed by interviewees that there are potentially prohibitive costs associated with gaining accreditation for newly developed materials and certification schemes can be viewed as excessively complex by material developers. Interviewee 2 explained that it is challenging to test an emerging bio-based material using a standard developed by a large multi-national company for conventional construction material. The creation of a standard for an emerging material can cost £200,000; the use of a suitable existing standard which may be applied to a new material can reduce the cost of accreditation by an order of magnitude.