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What's the environmental impact of CCF? I'm starting out on a dream home project, but get uneasy thinking I'm building a house from lots of fossil fuel and con
by willvarfar 6y ago
What's the environmental impact of CCF?
I'm starting out on a dream home project, but get uneasy thinking I'm building a house from lots of fossil fuel and concrete.
There's such a thing as 'green concrete' but the way its marketed smells like a pending dieselgate.
I'm currently leaning towards straw-bale and timber (I'm building in forests), but want lots of glazing and that seems really bad environmentally too.
- alanfranz 6y ago> What's the environmental impact of CCF? Did you consider the total impact of your new house throughout its whole life? Even though CCF may be fossil-fuel based (disclosure: I have no actual idea of how CCF is created), if it saves a lot of energy (which is probably extracted by fossil fuels as well) it may easily be a win for the environment.
- willvarfar 6y agoYeap, environmental impact is the whole life thing, total. We are literally replying to someone saying that the CCF will outlive the house! I've done a bit of amateur archaeological digging and the viking houses are just stains in the ground, showing where the post holes once were. There's a beauty in that, I think. Whereas in a thousand years will people be digging up CCF with the imprint of timber studs? Yuck!