Life cycle assessment of a domestic natural materials wood house

Yutaka Tonooka; Hiroto Takaguchi; Koichi Yasui; Takuo Maeda

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.12.313

Life cycle assessment of a domestic natural materials wood house

Yutaka Tonooka^*, Hiroto Takaguchi, Koichi Yasui, Takuo Maeda

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School of Creative Science and Engineering

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Abstract

We conducted a project entitled "Achieving Climate Change Abatement and Comfortable Life by a Partnership between Forestry and Natural Material Housing (NMH) in Urban Areas," which aims to achieve carbon neutral housing by 2050 by linking forest management to the use of domestic wood in environmentally friendly Natural Materials Housing. In this paper, we conduct long term Life Cycle Assessment of CO₂ emissions from afforestation stage to ultimate demolition of the house, encompassing the following stages: afforestation work and log cutting, lumber production, house building, use of the house (with main emissions coming from energy consumption for space heating and cooling, cooking, hot water supply, lighting, and appliances), repair, demolition, and waste treatment. Analysis results indicate that Life Cycle CO₂ emissions from Natural Materials Housing are low, when compared with standard cases.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1634-1637
Number of pages	4
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	61
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.12.313
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	6th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2014 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 2014 May 30 → 2014 Jun 2

Keywords

CO emissions
Forestry
LCA
Natural Materials Housing
Wood lumber

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UN SDGs

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Life cycle assessment of a domestic natural materials wood house

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