Environmental profiles of construction materials, components and buildings for the UK

Anderson, Jane; Edwards, Suzy; Kapoor, Prashant and Dickie, Ian (2000). Environmental profiles of construction materials, components and buildings for the UK. In: International Symposium on Integrated Life-Cycle Design of Materials and Structures (Sarja, A. ed.), RILEM Publications SARL, pp. 308–312.

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Abstract

A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology for construction products has been established with UK construction materials producers. The method provides "level-playing field" LCA for all types of construction materials. Environmental Profiles provide a consideration of materials as part of building elements, including maintenance and replacement. A software tool called ENVEST TM uses this data to analyse the whole building. This gives the impact of the structure and operational impacts of a design over a set lifetime, in UK Ecopoints. The use of Ecopoints for life cycle assessment results enables environmental issues to be integrated into life cycle design alongside financial costs.

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