Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment of a Single-Family House in Malaysia: Assessing Two Alternative IBS Frames

The life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology is used in this paper to assess the environmental impacts of IBS walls over 50 years in Malaysia. Quantifying the consumption of the energy and material resources during the life cycle permits the estimation of potential changes in the environment (climate change, acidification and ozone depletion). Two different IBS unites are evaluated . There are includes pre-cast concrete framing and prefabricated timber framing systems. The research demonstrates that The residence with the timber framing system has a less negative impact on the environment. This research accomplishes with Eco-indicator’99 method with eleven impact categories for the interpretation of results, and compares the results of IBS frames; the main purpose of this paper is a survey the effect of IBS frame on human health. The software is simapro which is one of the comprehensive path to survey life cycle assessment of products nowadays.