Wood as a building material in the light of environmental assessment of full life cycle of four buildings

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 428-436

  Pajchrowski, Grzegorz ^a   Noskowiak, Andrzej ^a   Lewandowska, Anna ^b   Strykowski, Wladysław ^a  

^a Poznan Institute of Technology   (Poland)

^b POZNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Buildings; Environmental impact; Life cycle; Wood

Indexed keywords

BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY STANDARDS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MATERIAL STRUCTURE; WOOD-BASED MATERIALS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; WASTE DISPOSAL; WOOD;

LIFE CYCLE;

BUILDINGS; LIFE CYCLE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WOOD;

EID: 84890282870     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.11.066     Document Type: Article

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