Storing carbon in construction products and building components seems a particularly
attractive strategy for compensating the initial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from …

A consequential-based lifecycle approach is used here to explore the carbon implications of
conventional and low-energy versions of three timber multi-storey building systems. The …

Industries have set ambitious targets for 2030 related to green building: Tripling the market
share of wood construction, doubling the value added of the woodworking industries and …

This work presents a numerical model to analyse the hygro-thermal behaviour of wooden
bridge members. A multi-Fickian hygro-thermal model, previously implemented by some of …

Thorough and detailed with contributions from an international group of experts, this
handbook covers all areas of carbon footprint, including the scientific elements …

• Based on long-term averages, the overall annual building construction volume in the EU27
totals 240 million m2, or more than 2 million housing units.• Including the whole lifecycle of …

The current state of research shows that there is big potential for the use of wood,
particularly harvested wood products (HWP) to mitigate climate change and increase carbon …

This work brings together some recent research and results activities aiming at investigating
the environmental benefits of using bio-based materials for the construction and …

This report was created within the Ministry of the Environment research project ReUSE
Rakennuselementtien uudelleenkäyttö. The project aims at C&D waste reduction …

Several initiatives have been launched to increase sustainability in building industry. All of
them contain a shift in focus from energy consumption to a wide variety of indicators for the …