Journal article
Life Cycle Assessment of Forest and Wood Products in Australia
Environment design guide, pp.1-10
2009
Abstract
Sustainability imperatives are starting to drive business decisions and government policies. As solutions are sought to developing environmental assessments, it is important to know how much energy, water or chemical has gone into manufacturing a product, and what greenhouse gas emissions or other emissions to the environment have been released in the process. The first national rigorous Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) of representative Australian forestry and wood products and processes was developed by CSIRO to allow the environmental impacts of the production of common timber products and systems to be quantified and evaluated from 'cradle-to-gate'. This paper outlines the development of the Life Cycle Inventory of Australian forestry and wood products and provides some results and benefits.
Details
- Title
- Life Cycle Assessment of Forest and Wood Products in Australia
- Authors
- Selwyn Tucker (Author) - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationJacqui England (Author) - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationMurray Hall (Author) - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationBarrie May (Author) - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationPene Mitchell (Author) - Greenhaus DesignRob Rouwette (Author) - RMIT UniversitySeongwon Seo (Author) - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Publication details
- Environment design guide, pp.1-10
- Publisher
- Australian Institute of Architects
- ISSN
- 2207-466X
- Organisation Unit
- National Centre for Timber Durability and Design Life
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99735294702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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