Comprehensive life cycle assessment of 25 furniture pieces across categories for sustainable design.

ABSTRACT: Furniture is a crucial sector for sustainable development due to its high environmental impact and substantial potential for sustainable improvement. Despite many existing furniture Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), they often provide fragmented data, hindering a comprehensive understanding of the environmental impact across different furniture groups due to methodological disparities. This study employs LCA as the primary method to evaluate 25 furniture pieces across 8 groups. Using the Environmental Footprint method and the Ecoinvent 3.7 database within Simapro 9.1.1.1 software, it generates a comprehensive database with all 25 furniture pieces' environmental performance data, including the environmental impacts of furniture with different characteristics within the same furniture group, the

SUBMITTER: Yang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12015272 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature