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From the Library from Environmental Building News
March 1, 1994
Building Materials in the Context of Sustainable Development
One of the biggest obstacles to meaningful comparisons of environmental impacts across a range of different construction materials has been the lack of comparable research founded on common assumptions. With the release of the Phase II reports from the Sustainable Materials Project sponsored by Natural Resources Canada, that obstacle is beginning to disappear. For this project Forintek Canada Corp. (the R&D organization of Canada’s forest industries) and Wayne B. Trusty & Associates Ltd. have coordinated comprehensive environmental assessments of the manufacture of structural building products from wood, steel, and concrete using a common set of research guidelines. The project’s eventual goal (at Phase IV) is to have a software package allowing users to easily compare alternate structural assemblies for their environmental impacts. With the completion of Phase II and the publication of this series of reports, the information they have compiled is available to others interested in this type of research....
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