| Paper title: | Method for calculating ecological balances |
| Authors: | Kaivonen J A |
| Summary: | Methods for assessing environmental impacts are needed in building design. Need arises fromenvironmental strategies of the developer of a building. Embodied energy and some otherimpacts can be analysed by using either input-output analysis or process analysis. An ordinaryinput-output table is not accurate enough for all comparison purposes. In this research amodel was developed that allows results of input-output analysis to be improved with processanalysis data. The result of input-output analysis, the environmental inverse matrix is used asa part of building process model database so that environmental assessment of buildings byusing input-output analysis does not require matrix operations. |
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| Year of publication: | 1997 |
| Series: | ecce:1997 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/ecce-1997-149.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Kaivonen J A (1997). Method for calculating ecological balances. Sarja A (editor); Computers in the practice of building and civil engineering, Worldwide ECCE symposium; September 3-5, 1997, Finland, http://itc.scix.net/paper/ecce-1997-149 |