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.
Embodied Carbon - what is it and how to compare materials? Sustainable building materials, Part 4
Sustainable building must mean producing as little CO₂ as possible. That means low or zero carbon emissions from both construction and use of a building. Choices of material can have a huge impact on this.