The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products

Sustainability with the ASBP

The ASBP believes that good decision-making requires an informed and holistic approach. Products that are low embodied carbon, natural, non-toxic and healthy in use are preferred.

At Bereco we support the development of robust well-governed standards and decision-making tools to enable better specification and procurement.

We are passionate about wood and the natural benefits this brings. With research showing that people feel discernibly happier when surrounded by nature, natural materials such as wood are fundamental to creating calm, relaxed, more mindful spaces which is crucial to our wellbeing.

Bereco is the only timber window and door company to use only FSC® 100% certified slow-grown softwood and hardwood. This showcases our dedication to producing natural and sustainable timber windows and doors.

Life enhancing buildings

The ASBP believes that the best buildings are life-enhancing and support our physical and mental health. Great design and healthy products enable the delivery of a healthy internal environment – meaning good indoor air quality, natural lighting as well as excellent thermal and acoustic comfort. This showcases best practice, good design and champions healthy products.

Bereco timber windows and doors have been designed to incorporate acoustic glazing with decibel ratings up to 46dB. With recent studies identifying a correlation between environmental noise and serious health issues including dementia, this level of noise insulation in the home is proven to promote health and wellbeing and reduce the risk of strokes and heart disease.

Resource efficiency

The ASBP believes that we can make better use of resources in the built environment to deliver low-carbon buildings. The organisation champions products that better deliver the aspiration of the circular economy.

Bereco wooden windows and doors actually store and save carbon which means they are helping to prevent global warming.

Since 2003, Bereco has supplied over 190,000 wooden windows and doors saving just under 49 million kgCO2e – the equivalent of taking over 16,000 cars off our roads.

We are proud to have our windows and doors featured in the Princes Natural House at the BRE Innovation Park which was designed with natural materials to stringent low-carbon targets and is the perfect example of a low-carbon, sustainable home which keeps traditional features.

What is in a uPVC window frame?

The ASBP published a report which exposes the toxicity of the material used in uPVC window frames and details the negative effect this has on our health and the ecosystem.

To find out more information view the report in full here.