Articles on some of the different facets of making a sustainable building
Life Cycle Assessment, Part 1.
In the last blog-post I looked at ways of comparing the embodied carbon of different materials. This post applies that to the lifespan of a building, giving an explanation of life cycle assessment, looking at what it includes, how, and why it’s important.
Natural vs Sustainable - Sustainable building materials, Part 1
The word ‘natural’ is often used as shorthand for ‘sustainable’ - but should it be? Is a natural building material automatically sustainable, and are the only sustainable materials natural ones? What does the word ‘natural’ really mean anyway? Come to that, what does the word ‘sustainable’ really mean?