Forests, timber and climate change
Environmental Impacts of Multi-Storey Buildings using
Different Construction Materials Juy 2009 [3.94M PDF]
Using a real six-story concrete building being erected at the
University of Canterbury as the template, researchers "built" another
three virtual buildings with the same characteristics as the template.
One is "constructed" using timber as the main structural material,
another using steel, and a third being "timber-plus", in which
non-structural elements also use wood and wood-based products. The
objectives were to fill an information gap about what is the greatest
amount of wood that can be used in the construction and fit-out of
commercial, large-scale buildings in New Zealand; and to provide Life
Cycle Assessment (LCA) information about the benefits of maximising the
use of wood in buildings.
Comment on forestry
and climate change E. G. Mason and David Evison
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