Articles on some of the different facets of making a sustainable building
Life Cycle Assessment, Part 2: example carbon assessment for a Passivhaus building.
This post follows directly from the last two, which looked at ways to compare the embodied carbon of different materials. This post puts that into practice with an example using life cycle assessment to compare the differing carbon impacts of different options for a passivhaus design.
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.