Authors Elbasdi, Gulay; Blok, Rijk; Teuffel, Patrick Abstract Material choice depicts great influence on the environmental performance of building structures through their impact on manufacturing technology and supply chain configuration. Traditional composite materials provide more lightweight structures than conventional materials, however, the associated high CO2eq impact and energy demand can be detrimental to the environment. [...]

Authors Ko, Nathanael Abstract The environmental impact and financial gain resulting from a global value chain of a product areoften distributed unequally amongst the participating countries of the value chain. The question „How to make this unequal distribution visible?“ serves as the guiding question of this paper. This question is discussed based on three major [...]

Authors Saling, Peter Abstract The assessment of human toxicity is an important impact category that needs to be considered in a meaningful way within LCA studies. Meaningful results will support the improvement of products and processes in a holistic way. However, human toxicity aspects were under the investigation of several groups to come up with [...]