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Quick questions on Environmental impact of construction - CCEA GCSE Construction
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What is the life cycle of a building?Show answer
The environmental impact spreads across the life cycle: extracting and making the materials, transporting them, constructing the building, using and maintaining it for decades, and finally demolishing it. A large share of a building's lifetime impact comes from the energy used to run it once it is occupied, which is why energy efficiency matters so much.
What is reducing the impact?Show answer
The industry reduces its impact in several ways:
What is q1?Show answer
Name two raw materials used by construction that come from natural resources. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
State what is meant by reduce in the waste hierarchy. [1 mark]
What is q3?Show answer
Give one way a site can prevent pollution of a nearby river. [1 mark]
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