Renewable wood-based materials can help to reduce GHG emissions in the construction sector and thus support the bioeconomy. However, their use has not reached the full potential as there is currently only limited availability of comprehensive sustainability assessments and no benchmarking against non-renewable material use. To fill this information gap, a newly established project co-ordinated by the European Forest Institute (EFI) will be developing a sustainability assessment method which allows comparison and benchmarking between different renewable, mineral and non-renewable materials used in house construction.
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