Assessing the Climate Change Impacts of Biogenic Carbon in Buildings: A Critical Review of Two Main Dynamic Approaches

Assessing the Climate Change Impacts of Biogenic Carbon in Buildings: A Critical Review of Two Main Dynamic Approaches

Wood is increasingly perceived as a renewable, sustainable building material. The carbon it contains, biogenic carbon, comes from biological processes; it is characterized by a rapid turnover in the global carbon cycle. Increasing the use of harvested wood products (HWP) from sustainable forest mana...

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Main Authors: Charles Breton, Pierre Blanchet, Ben Amor, Robert Beauregard, Wen-Shao Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-06-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
climate change
sustainable buildings
embodied carbon
biogenic carbon
dynamic life cycle assessment
life cycle assessment
wood construction
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/6/2020

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