Natural materials, such as straw bale and earth, have substantially less embodied energy than processed materials so...
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Life Cycle Assessment
Bio-Based Materials for the Italian Construction Industry: Buildings as Carbon Sponges
This work brings together some recent research and results in activities aiming at investigating the environmental...
Strawbale Construction – A Least Embodied Energy Material
In the present scenario, the need for sustainable solutions is increasing, as our world is facing various difficult...
Comparative analysis of an existing public building made from natural building materials and reference buildings designed from common building materials
The paper examines a public building constructed of partially natural materials and two imagined buildings with the...
LCA straw bale CEREMA 2015 (base of EPD)
EN: As part of the SB&WRC project, the technical, environmental and economic characteristics of the three low...
Comparing construction technologies of single-family housing with regard of minimizing embodied energy and embodied carbon
This article concerns the Life Cycle Assessment method of evaluation and the ways in which it can be applied as a tool...
Annex. Monetisation of the MMG method. Update 2017
The publication describes the methods and data used to monetise the LCIA impacts as a further development of the...
Energy and Environmental Evaluation of Non-Transparent Constructions of Building Envelope for Wooden Houses
The contribution of embodied energy (EE) and greenhouse gas emissions to building materials and structures has been...
Comparative study of brick and straw bale wall systems from environmental, economical and energy perspectives
The aim of this study is to compare brick and straw bale wall systems from environmental, economic and energy...
Is biochar or straw bale construction better carbon storage from a life-cycle perspective?
Biochar has been presented as a key technology for avoiding dangerous climate change. Pyrolysis converts part...
The carbon-reduction potential of straw bale housing
The role of straw bale as a construction material for reducing the whole-life impacts of housing is examined. The...
Sustainable construction materials and technologies: Second International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies, Ancona, Italy
Some construction materials can sequester carbon, balancing emissions from other materials and operating energy. This...
Straw bale constructions: Laboratory, in field and numerical assessment of energy and environmental performance
The use of straw in buildings has been common since ancient times, but only at the beginning of the twentieth-century...
Straw Bale Construction: Assessing and Minimizing Embodied Energy
As the effects of global warming and the exhaustion of natural resources become more and more evident, the importance...