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How Will The Building Products LCI Affect Your Organisation?

Written by admin on 04/07/2011 — Leave a Comment

In the last few months there have been major advances in the way Australian building products can be assessed and compared for their environmental credentials. Edge Environment have played a significant role in these developments. To-date, building products and materials have primarily been assessed and  promoted with individual environmental claims like “recycled”, “recyclable”, “FSC Certified”, “non-toxic”, “natural”, “renewable”, “low VOC” etc.  This approach is too [...]

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Weaving an Environmental Picture

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 27/06/2011 — Leave a Comment

Woven Image is an international textile design company specialising in textiles for commercial interiors, including offices, hotels, restaurants, airports and theatres. Woven Image are working with Edge Environment to integrate life cycle thinking across their supply chain. First out, Woven Image selected the EchoPanel product ranges for life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify opportunities to [...]

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Woven Image GreenTag Gold certification

Written by admin on 22/04/2011 — 2 Comments

Woven Image have undergone a Life Cycle Assessment for EchoPanel conducted by Edge Environment and have met all the requirements for ecospecifier global GreenTag(TM)*. Edge’s LCA study helped Woven Image identify that the greatest opportunity to reduce the environmental footprint of the EchoPanel was to further develop their existing product stewardship scheme. Woven Image not only [...]

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Building Products Life Cycle Inventory Seminars

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 12/03/2011 — Leave a Comment

Building Products Life Cycle Inventory Seminars: The role and uses of the BP LCI to assist the building industry to conduct Life Cycle Assessment of Australian building products – the Australian method and database; how to access and use the BP LCI.  

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Toolkit for building material life cycle assessment

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 12/02/2011 — Leave a Comment

The Building Products Innovation Council (BPIC) announces the release of the Building Products Life Cycle Inventory A New toolkit for building material life cycle assessment

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Methodology Guidelines for the Materials and Building Products Life Cycle Inventory Database

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 15/01/2011 — Leave a Comment

Methodology Guidelines for the Materials and Building Products Life Cycle Inventory Database for the Building Products Innovation Council by Nigel Howard and David Sharp (also available from Building Products Life Cycle Inventory). This methodology is part of a set of documents and resources developed for the BPIC/ICIP LCI project.

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