Developing a LCA database of wood materials

Yusuke Nambu; Toshiharu Ikaga; Hiroki Hondo; Kensuke Kobayashi; Yuko Tsunetsugu

doi:10.3130/aijt.18.269

Developing a LCA database of wood materials

Yusuke Nambu, Toshiharu Ikaga, Hiroki Hondo, Kensuke Kobayashi, Yuko Tsunetsugu

Department of System Design Engineering

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Abstract

At present, the use of eco-friendly building materials is needed in order to reduce the environmental load. From this viewpoint, a LCA database has been established by the Architectural Institute of Japan. However, the database has two problems. First, the environmental load of imported wood materials is not evaluated. Second, the environmental load of wood materials in the database is stored as an average value. The purpose of this study is developing a LCA database of wood materials that takes into account imported wood materials and contains detailed data for the forestry, manufacturing, and transport stages.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	269-274
Number of pages	6
Journal	AIJ Journal of Technology and Design
Volume	18
Issue number	38
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3130/aijt.18.269
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

Architectural wood
Input-output analysis
Life cycle assessment

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Architecture
Building and Construction

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