Outline of the video

• Consumption and use of materials
• Looking for the materials that are being consumed in the city (from domestic extraction, but also imports)
• What kind of data to look for:
  • Amount of new buildings and roads
  • Number and kinds of renovations
  • Materials composition
    • share of materials for each new building (depending on building typologies)
    • Average material usage in renovation
    
    
  
  
• M2:26 Examples
  • Brussels building stock, source: p.25 of this report
  • New buildings and building typologies in Brussels, including square meters built; Belgian statistical office: source
  • New residential buildings built per year in Brussels, source
  • Offices observatory Brussels; depicts new office buildings built in Brussels, source
  • Material composition data can be found at planning departments, where they issue permits; These permits also come with architectural materials or the bill of quantity.
  • Properties of the 48 building archetypes used to characterise the building stock of the City of Melbourne, Australia
  • Construction assemblies used in 48 building archetypes representing the current building stock of the City of Melbourne, Australia
  
  
• Renovation: try to differentiate between light and deep insulation
• M8:32, Economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA) 2020 questionnaire; This document provides tips on how to calculate data if otherwise you cannot find it.
• In case you don't find information on material composition data for your city, there are studies usually at least for the country that can also be used.