Australia’s health system is a major contributor to national greenhouse gas emissions. One way to address this is to consider the environmental impacts of healthcare in health technology assessments (HTA) and decision-making processes. This issues brief provides insights on how integrating environmental impacts into HTAs can contribute to a more environmentally sustainable healthcare system.

This study measures the impact of Lean and VDC on waste in operations, and on GHG emissions of masonry partitions.

The main objective of this study is to develop an integrated BIM-LCA method for the entire building process by relating it to an established workflow.

To meet climate-change mitigation needs, one must go beyond operational energy consumption and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of buildings and address their full life cycle. Considering global GHG reduction targets, the results of this study emphasise the urgent need to reduce GHG emissions of buildings by optimising both operational and embodied impacts.

Various tools that use a Building Information Modelling (BIM) model for automatic quantity take-off as a basis for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) have been developed recently. This paper describes the first application of such a BIM-LCA tool to evaluate the embodied global warming potential (GWP) throughout the whole design process of a real building.