Life cycle assessment and life cycle costing for demolition waste management

Ninety five percent of the construction and demolition waste is recycled in the Netherlands. Most of it is used for low value applications such as road base materials; the use of secondary material in buildings is still less than 3%7. In order to recover waste for higher value applications, enhancing selective demolition and waste management...

Differences between LCA for analysis and LCA for policy: A case study on the consequences of allocation choices in bio-energy policies

Purpose - The increasing concern for adverse effects of climate change has spurred the search for alternatives for conventional energy sources. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has increasingly been used to assess the potential of these alternatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The popularity of LCA in the policy context puts its...

The search for the most eco-efficient strategies for sustainable housing transformations

The search for the most eco-efficient strategies for sustainable housing construction; Dutch lessons

The factor of time in life cycle assessments of housing