Until recently, it was thought that that the embodied energy content of a building was small compared to the energy used in operating the building over its life. More effort was therefore put into reducing operating energy by using insulation materials at the building envelope.
Research has demonstrated that this is not always the case. In some cases, embodied energy can be the equivalent of many years of operational energy. The following figures, calculated by Dincel Construction System , has been peer reviewed by Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and demonstrates that the system offers 89 years of equivalent heating and cooling operational energy and significant CO2 reduction when the principles of Dincel Construction System are adopted.
An energy saving of 72 127 kwh can be achieved after one year of DCS, which equates to an equivalent Carbon Dioxide t- CO2-e saving of 75.8 tonnes CO2-e.