RESEARCH ARTICLE
Life-time Material Effectiveness Analysis of Building Components
Arto Saari*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 166
Last Page: 169
Publisher ID: TOBCTJ-2-166
DOI: 10.2174/1874836800802010166
Article History:
Received Date: 31/03/2008Revision Received Date: 5/08/2008
Acceptance Date: 6/08/2008
Electronic publication date: 28/8/2008
Collection year: 2008
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
The paper compares the life-time material effectiveness of five exterior walls used to build residential buildings. Effectiveness was measured by the MIPS method. The five exterior walls compared were: 1) a precast concrete wall, 2) a brick and concrete wall, 3) a brick and timber wall, 4) a timber wall, and 5) a straw wall. Expected service life of the exterior wall was 100 years. The precast concrete wall will consume about twice as much material over its 100-year lifespan as a wooden wall. The length of the service life of a wall affects the material effectiveness of concrete and brick walls significantly.