Case Studies
Life Cycle Assessment of the Australian/New Zealand plasterboard industry
Thursday 22, October 2009
This report documents the environmental impacts of plasterboard in Australia and New Zealand over its whole life cycle and can […]
Waitakere NOW Home
Thursday 22, October 2009
This project used Life Cycle Assessment to assess the environmental performance of the Waitakere NOW Home over its 100-year lifespan. […]
Environmental Impacts of Multi-Storey Buildings Using Different Construction Materials
Thursday 22, October 2009
The study investigated the energy use and climate change impacts related to a six-storey building made of different construction materials […]
Exemplar House
Thursday 22, October 2009
The Exemplar house is a basic two storey design of a house, with a building system typical for New Zealand […]
NZ Fuel and Electricity Energy & Life Cycle Emission Factors
Thursday 22, October 2009
This paper describes the results and methodology used for determining the primary energy, carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emission factors […]
Carbon Footprints of Wind Farm
Thursday 22, October 2009
Life-cycle energy and global warming potentials of specific New Zealand wind farms have been assessed for Contact Energy and Trust […]
Life cycle liabilities of transport infrastructure (TILL)
Thursday 22, October 2009
This project uses Life Cycle Assessment methodology to estimate the benchmark energy use and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) for passenger […]
Emissions Embodied in New Zealand’s International Trade
Thursday 22, October 2009
This study uses multi-regional input-output analysis combined with selected bottom-up analyses to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions embodied in New […]
The Life Cycle Management Project
Thursday 22, October 2009
This five-year project seeks to build capability among New Zealand manufacturing companies for product-oriented environmental management. LCM Champions in six […]
Lincoln University Dairy Farm Carbon Footprint
Monday 5, October 2009
This project determined, based on Life Cycle Assessment methodology, the total resource use and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) or carbon […]