The carbon footprint of multi-storey timber buildings compared with conventional materials

11th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2010, WCTE 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1281-1289

  John, Stephen ^a   Perez, Nicolas ^a   Buchanan, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Buildings; Carbon footprint; GWP; LCA; Timber

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL MATERIALS; END-OF-LIFE; FOOTPRINTING; GWP; LCA; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MULTISTOREY BUILDINGS; TIMBER BUILDINGS; TOTAL EMISSIONS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; CARBON; CARBON FOOTPRINT; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIFE CYCLE; WOODEN BUILDINGS;

TIMBER;

EID: 84870430815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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