Eco-Build NW - Construction benchmarks
A framework for comparing materials, elements, buildings, firms and districts
Assessment framework
The basic framework is shown as a kind of Rubik's cube, with 3 main axes:
- Element / material breakdown: covers common building materials grouped by common elements and specifications
- Impacts - environmental / economic: the environmental impacts of material flow, eco-footprint and CO2 production are generated from the REAP modelling system, which includes for both direct and indirect impacts. The economic data are to be supplied by the industry
- Level: the same underlying database informs each of the main levels, i.e. element / material level: building level: firm / sector level: regional level. Each of these levels has its own index point: e.g. the building level is indexed against finished floorspace: the firm level is indexed against output: the regional level is indexed against household / dwelling numbers
