Study on the environmental evaluation method of Interior and exterior finishing materials considering the transport distance

Abstract

In order to make clear the extent of environmental impact for transport distance of building materials, it is reported the distribution of domestic plants for typical finishing materials and the extent of environmental impact regarding the transportation. The results show that many plants of finishing materials were generally built into the outskirts of big cities. And manufacturing energy was generally bigger than transportation energy, however, influences of transportation energy for environmental impact should be considered in the case of long transport distance. We propose a simple evaluation method for environmental impact regarding transportation “building materials-mileage”.