Towards a low-carbon envelope

A 40-page booklet (April 2021) on the challenges, methods and levers for reducing the environmental impact of façades. It presents:

• the life-cycle analysis of envelopes, using the in-house calculation tool OptimEC;
• a comparative analysis of components (cladding, shading…);
• the impact by construction type, on project sheets: timber-aluminium curtain wall, double brick wall, ribbon façade, single- and double-skin curtain wall;
• the options of bio-based materials, reversibility and reuse.

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