Graham Treloar Presentation on Embodied Water
Presentation by Graham Treloar on the concept of Embodied Water presented at an AASMIC evening meeting 16th February 2006. Dr Graham Treloar works with the Built Environment Research Group of the School of Architecture and Building, Deakin University. Demand for water is a nationally significant problem, across all sectors. Water is consumed directly by construction, and indirectly as a result of processes required upstream, such as steel manufacture. Unfortunately little is known about the indirect water requirements of the construction sector. Preliminary models indicate that the embodied water could be several times the enclosed volume of a typical commercial building, representing many years of annual 'operational' water. Hence the results of the proposed research need to be integrated into water conservation strategies currently being developed and refined (for example, 'grey' water recycling). The key problem addressed in the project is that current water conservation strategies focus on direct water consumption. An integral component of this problem is the complexity of the construction supply chain, necessitating the development of an innovative visualisation method to enable the research to be applied. The results for embodied water are compared to those for embodied energy, to determine if current strategies to minimise the effect of embodied energy area affecting embodied water, positively or negatively.The following files are attached to this document:
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