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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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Weighting for LCA based Tools, Methods and Ecolabels – Practical but Contentious!

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 22/02/2011 — Leave a Comment

Weighting for LCA based Tools, Methods and Ecolabels – Practical but Contentious! Edge Environment paper for the 7th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in March 2011: This paper explores the derivation and use of weighting factors to interpret LCIA results from midpoint impact measures to a final score. The different methods used internationally are [...]

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Sustainability Considerations in Structural Design

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 13/02/2011 — 1 Comment

Sustainability Considerations in Structural Design Edge Environment poster for the 7th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in March 2011.

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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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The LCA Answer to your Nappy Nuisance

Written by Jonas Bengtsson on 12/01/2011 — Leave a Comment

It’s 3am and your newborn beauty is crying, again. Your half-asleep partner gives you a quick nudge as a reminder that it’s your turn, so you sombrely make it to your feet and mosey to the baby room. While checking on the little one, you can see by the look on her face that this [...]

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