To optimise the use of renewable materials in construction, it is essential to understand the factors influencing decisions throughout their design and service life. Life Cycle Costing (LCC) supports sustainable …
Design software has revolutionized the building design sector, with programs simplifying complex design procedures on a digital platform. The implementation of service-life planning (SLP) to this platform is growing in …
Wood in outdoor applications is prone to fungal decay if the environmental conditions are favourable for the fungi. Key parameters for fungal growth, activity, and decay potential are wood temperature …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2014) has released four Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP 2.6, 4.5, 6.0, and 8.5) (Taylor et al., 2012) to capture trends in future emissions …
Wood durability researchers have long emphasised the need to identify regions with increased decay risk in the built environment. Direct soil contact and moisture trapping design have received the most …
The overall objective of the ForestValue project WoodLCC is to enable robust and precise Life-Cycle-Costing (LCC) based on input from novel models for detailed service life performance specification for wooden …
Despite the favourable properties of wood, one negative aspect is that wood can be degraded by biotic and abiotic factors such as fungi, rain and UV light (Brischke et al., …
