Characterization of Environmental Impact of Building Materials for the Purpose of Ecodesign

Agnese Skele; Mara Repele; Gatis Bazbauers

doi:10.2478/v10145-011-0015-1

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Characterization of Environmental Impact of Building Materials for the Purpose of Ecodesign

Environmental and Climate Technologies

Volume 6 (2011): Issue -1 (June 2011)

By: Agnese Skele, Mara Repele and Gatis Bazbauers

Open Access

|Jan 2012

Abstract

-The building material manufacturing sector is one of the sectors with the highest consumption of fossil fuel resources. The "cradle-to-gate" study of the ceramic bricks made in the Āne plant of JSC Lode, Latvia, is performed according to ISO standards 14044:2006. Life cycle inventory data have been collected at the factory site. Three different perspectives of the "Eco-Indicator'99" method are used to conduct an environmental characterization of the building materials to obtain the total impact indicator.

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