Integrating environmental aspects into industrial practices has become a necessity. In fact, climate
change and resource depletion have been established scientifically and can no more be neglected. Life
Cycle Assessment is acknowledged to be an efficient tool to establish a product environmental profile
and can be useful to businesses wishing to analyze their environmental record. Decreasing a building
environmental footprint implies, among other considerations, a proper choice of building materials, both
structural and architectural. A good avenue would be to select low environmental impact materials from
cradle-to-grave. Architectural wooden doors are often specified in non-residential buildings in North
America. However, only one Life Cycle Assessment has been carried out on wooden doors. This study
explores the cradle-to-grave environmental profile of an interior wood door in a North American context.
According to the results, the main contributor to the product impacts is the production of raw materials,
especially the particleboard component, and their transportation to the manufacturing plant. The urea
formaldehyde production is the main reason for particleboard impacts among the three damage categories,
human health, climate change and resources, of IMPACT 2002þ. The other life cycle stages that
have a noticeable influence on the door environmental impacts are shipping and end-of-life. Transportation
as a whole affected the system total environmental score. The current results could serve as a
basis for ecodesign implementation
