Podcast
Building Life Cycle Assessment, or LCA, quantifies a building's environmental footprint over its entire life cycle. From the extraction of raw[...]
5 min
A bill of materials, or BOM for short, is a list of all the materials needed to produce an end product – which includes buildings! It’s a tool that[...]
4 min
The construction industry consumes an enormous amount of raw materials. Resources that are running out, and whose extraction and use weigh heavily in[...]
7 min
Faced with ever scarcer natural resources and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the construction industry is looking to urban[...]
7 min
The concept of passive building emerged in Germany in the 1970s. The aim of this approach? To see how much could be done to reduce the energy bills[...]
5 min
If you don’t know the acronym PAAS, it stands for “product as a service”. It’s a model based on how a product is used and not just its physical[...]
6 min