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How Will The Building Products LCI Affect Your Organisation?

Written by @EdgeEnvironment 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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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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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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7th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment

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

Edge presenting at the 7th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment: Revealing the secrets of a green market in Melbourne (9 – 10 March 2011): Weighting for LCA based Tools, Methods and Ecolabels – Practical but Contentious! by Nigel Howard and Ben Kneppers LCA Based Carbon Calculator Transferring LCA Information into a Carbon Footprint Calculation and [...]

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