Material efficiency

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Building construction can be a materially consumptive endeavor.

Material efficiency is a description or metric which expresses the degree to which a construction project or physical process is carried out in a manner which consumes, incorporates, or wastes more or less of a given material compared to some standard. Making a still usable item out of thinner stock than a prior version increases the material efficiency of the manufacturing process.

[edit] See also

• Ecological deficit
• Global hectare