New ‘green’ methods to support forest and wood products advocacy in the built environment
This project will examine how the forest-to-built environment value chain can be better integrated with initiatives such as carbon offsets, climate-risk and nature-risk mitigation activities, or nature-based solutions initiatives.
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Timber 2032 Forum – Utilising timber in construction to lower emissions and reduce embodied carbon
Objectives/Deliverables
- Support the analysis of carbon offset methodology development options to achieve carbon savings by using wood products in the built environment (ongoing with Indufor).
- Piloting and evaluation of various ‘dynamic environmental impact measures’ to estimate embodied carbon in the forest-to-built environment value chain.
- Review of opportunities to develop new standards for the application of preferred dynamic environmental impact measures.
- Integrating dynamic impact measures with forest-to-built environment project specific narratives, to enable rigorous and transparent communication of the relative environmental merits of timber versus various other building materials at the building project level.
Project Leader/s
Paul Dargusch
Research Hub Deputy Director; Node Leader - Towards a Low-Carbon & Circular Economy
Monash University
Joe Gattas
Theme Leader - Innovative Solutions; Node Leader - Manufacturing Innovation & Value-Chain Innovation
The University of Queensland
Project Investigators
Fabiano Ximenes
Theme Leader - Transformative Benefits; Partner Investigator
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Robert Crawford
Project Leader; Chief Investigator
University of Melbourne
Lead Project Partner Organisation
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