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Exemplar House

The Exemplar house is a basic two storey design of a house, with a building system typical for New Zealand comprising of three bedrooms and a garage. This model was used as the basis for a study on energy and climate change impacts of a standard house over its life cycle.

Environmental Impacts of Multi-Storey Buildings Using Different Construction Materials

The study investigated the energy use and climate change impacts related to a six-storey building made of different construction materials (steel, concrete and timber). Scion’s role in this project was to assess the embodied energy and embodied global warming potential (GWP) of the different scenarios.

Waitakere NOW Home

This project used Life Cycle Assessment to assess the environmental performance of the Waitakere NOW Home over its 100-year lifespan. The system boundaries included construction, maintenance, operation and end of life.

Life Cycle Assessment of the Australian/New Zealand plasterboard industry

This report documents the environmental impacts of plasterboard in Australia and New Zealand over its whole life cycle and can be used as a benchmarking study. Data was provided by the Gypsum Board Manufacturers of Australasia (GBMA) member companies. The functional unit is “1 tonne of plaster used in the production of plasterboards”.