Marie-Lou D’Ercole, Łukasz Szarek, Piotr Manczarski
DOI: 10.15199/17.2025.7-8.6, GWiTS 7-8/2025, lipiec-sierpień 2025
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Abstract:
The construction industry is a large contributor to climate change, but it also presents an opportunity to positively affect changes through innovation in the built environment. It can include new forms of construction that are cleaner and more environmentally friendly, and which support a reduction of waste, different methods to work with innovative materials and find more effective solutions to store renewable energy. This work provides an example of a single-family house located in Tarnów, Poland, incorporating greener and innovative construction materials (recycled plastic bricks, hemp wool, hempcrete and wood), for which the carbon footprint is estimated. The materials selection was focused on the reduction of traditional materials, including concrete and fiberglass.
Keywords: carbon footprint, materials of construction.
Streszczenie:
Branża budowlana w dużym stopniu przyczynia się do zmian klimatycznych, co stanowi również okazję do wprowadzenia pozytywnych zmian poprzez innowacje. Mogą one obejmować nowe formy budownictwa, które są czystsze, bardziej ekologiczne i pomagają zmniejszyć ilość odpadów, różne metody wykorzystania nowych materiałów oraz lepsze sposoby magazynowania energii odnawialnej. Niniejsza praca przedstawia przykład domu jednorodzinnego zlokalizowanego w Tarnowie w Polsce, w którym zastosowano bardziej ekologiczne i innowacyjne materiały budowlane (cegły z recyklingowanego plastiku, wełnę konopną, beton konopny i drewno), dla którego oszacowano ślad węglowy. Wybór materiałów skupił się na redukcji tradycyjnych materiałów, w tym betonu i włókna szklanego.
Słowa kluczowe: ślad węglowy, materiały budowlane.
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