Svenska Fönster in a house with 37% lower carbon footprint
With smart material choices and solutions, the homebuilder A-hus has created a house with a 37% lower carbon footprint from construction compared to a standard project. This includes insulation made from recycled newspaper and windows from Svenska Fönster.
Globally, the construction and civil engineering sector accounts for about 40% of our collective greenhouse gas emissions. To challenge the traditional way of building houses, A-hus has constructed a research and development house south of Gothenburg, Sweden. They have simply deviated from their usual construction process by selecting materials and solutions that result in lower climate impact during construction.
This involves a wooden foundation instead of concrete, roofing with paper instead of concrete, attic and wall insulation made from recycled newspaper, and windows from Svenska Fönster. We have supplied fixed and outward-opening aluminum-clad wooden windows with a U-value of 1.0.
In summary, the house has a 37% lower carbon footprint compared to a standard project during the construction phase. But what does 37% mean? It could be more easily expressed as 7.5 tons of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to almost 2 laps around the Earth by plane.
The house was nominated for Sustainable Building Project of the Year in Sweden, and after the successful project, A-hus proceeded to seek five families interested in building houses in the same environmentally conscious manner.
