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Material efficiency: A white paper

Allwood, Julian M., Ashby, Michael F., Gutowski, Timothy G., Worrell, Ernst·2011·Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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  • Improving the supply of secondary structural timber to the construction industry could mitigate future supply risks, including increased competition for land, price rises, and future regulation of whole-life GHG emissions.

    “Improving the supply of secondary structural timber to the construction industry could mitigate future supply risks, including increased competition for the use of land (Allwood et al. 2011), price rises if timber supply is curtailed while demand rises (Defra 2010)”

    From Feasibility of cross-laminated secondary timber (2019) · cites this paper as Allwood et al. 2011

  • Lifetime extension is only valid when the avoided impacts from production are lower than the impacts from producing more durable components or treating the returned product to extend its lifetime.

    “lifetime extension is only valid when the avoided impacts from production, e.g., energy use and the subsequent reduction in impact upstream such as raw material extraction and transportation, are lower than the impacts from producing more durable components or treating the returned product to extend its lifetime [20,26].”
  • The term resource efficiency is used in policy circles in a manner synonymous with ME in the scientific literature.

    “In these policy circles, the term resource efficiency is used in a manner that is synonymous with the use ME in the scientific literature [3], and we use the more precise scientific term in this review.”

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Authors
Allwood, J. M., Ashby, M. F., Gutowski, T. G., & Worrell, E.
Affiliations
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Utrecht University (NL)
Corresponding author
Allwood, Julian M.
Venue
Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2011-01
Volume
55
Issue
3
Pages
362-381
ISSN
0921-3449 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2110194581
Cited by
927
References
110
Citations by year
2026: 77 · 2025: 77 · 2024: 57 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 70 · 2021: 92 · 2020: 85 · 2019: 68 · 2018: 68 · 2017: 77 · 2016: 45 · 2015: 43 · 2014: 36 · 2013: 47 · 2012: 17
FWCI
55.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Resources Conservation and Recycling (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion)
  • Cambridge University Engineering Department Publications Database (submittedVersion)
Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/G007217/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Sustainable Design and Development
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Keywords
material efficiency, product durability, modularization, remanufacturing, component reuse, lightweight design, barriers to change, waste management, energy efficiency, industrialised nations

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