Towards a Code of Practice for the use of bio-based materials in construction
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Stephen J. Farrar
(JBA Consulting Ltd, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Towards a Resilient Built Environment Risk and Asset Management, Guimarães, Portugal, 27-29 March 2019 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Guimarães 2019 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 1728-1733 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 6 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/guimaraes.2019.1728 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The wide scale use of bio-based materials, especially those that come from crop by-products have the potential to considerably reduce the embodied energy of construction materials. Traditional codes of practice are not well suited to the use of these materials nor do they embody circular economy principals. The gaps with current codes of practice will be outlined, and a new ‘Framework’ for a code of practice is proposed that would better suit the use of these materials. |
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| Keywords: |
sustainable construction embodied energy Circular economy Biogenic Materials Crop Based Materials
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