The materials bio-based constructions: A review of the methods of LCA

Silva Santana, Johnson and Ouellet-Plamondon, Claudiane. 2025. « The materials bio-based constructions: A review of the methods of LCA ». In Bio-Based Building Materials - Proceedings of ICBBM 2025 : Volume 2 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 17-20, 2025) pp. 259-265. Springer Nature.

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Abstract

Biomaterials are an alternative to the reliance on non-renewable raw materials and have the potential to reduce emissions of CO2 during their transformation processes, aiming to decrease their overall carbon footprint. Different Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodologies have been applied to understand the impacts of incorporating these materials into the construction industry, but the varieties of LCA methods and the limited number of studies make the best methodology a challenge. For this purpose, a literature review was conducted using the Web of Science database, to search for scientific articles in English, combining different keywords in three groups with the use of logical operators AND and OR: (LCA OR Life Cycle Assessment) AND Bio-based materials AND Building, (LCA OR Life Cycle Assessment) AND bio-based materials AND Construction, Biogenic AND carbon AND building AND sector AND (LCA OR Life Cycle Assessment), between the years 2015 and 2024, applying the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses 2020 (PRISMA) methodology, with exclusion criteria: keywords, title, abstract, and duplicate articles. Furthermore, reports and policies were used as inclusion criteria. A case study on insulating components will be conducted to examine the values reported in Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). The results show that the lack of standardization in the scales of bio-based products can be one of the barriers faced in expanding the use of these products.

Item Type:	Conference proceeding
ISBN:	978-3-031-92874-1
Professor:	Professor Ouellet-Plamondon, Claudiane
Affiliation:	Génie de la construction
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2025 18:39
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2025 15:23
URI:	https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/31107

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