{"id":1084,"date":"2011-11-28T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2011-11-28T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:12:43","slug":"responsibly-sourced-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/11\/28\/responsibly-sourced-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsibly sourced concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm grateful to Nick Jones for forwarding the latest newsletter from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bre.co.uk\/index.jsp\">BRE<\/a> group which reports that 70% of UK concrete is now responsibly sourced, and covered by BRE Global\u2019s BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing certification.<\/p>\n<p>Being curious as to what this could possibly mean, I delved further only to discover that <em>Responsible Sourcing of Construction Products<\/em> ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>provides a holistic approach to managing a product from the point at which a material is mined or harvested in its raw state through manufacture and processing, through use, re-use and recycling, until its final disposal as waste with no further value.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>is demonstrated through an ethos of supply chain management and product stewardship and encompasses social, economic and environmental dimensions.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>addresses aspects such as stakeholder engagement, labour practices and the management of supply chains serving materials sectors upstream of the manufacturer.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there we have it. \u00a0This makes blogging worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, if you want a (w)hole new take on holism, just click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bre.co.uk\/page.jsp?id=1514\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm grateful to Nick Jones for forwarding the latest newsletter from the BRE group which reports that 70% of UK concrete is now responsibly sourced, and covered by BRE Global\u2019s BES 6001 Responsible Sourcing certification. Being curious as to what...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}