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Jingchun Shen, Yang Chen and Karthik Hejamadi Rajagopal
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed global efforts toward transitioning to a sustainable society, driving rapid innovation in building technologies, working practices, building design, and whole life cycle environmental impact consideration. In this purs...
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Chen Zhu, Zhihan Yang, Boyu Huang and Xiaodong Li
China?s large-scale construction has led to massive energy consumption and carbon emissions. The embodied carbon emissions (ECs) of China?s building sector play a key role in realizing national emission reduction targets. Currently, the understanding of ...
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Abdul Rauf, Daniel Efurosibina Attoye and Robert Crawford
Extensive focus on operational energy research has positively impacted both academia and policymakers, facilitating new strategies that reduce the energy consumed by building occupants. Much less emphasis has, however, been given to embodied energy. Cons...
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Daniel Satola, Martin Röck, Aoife Houlihan-Wiberg and Arild Gustavsen
Improving the environmental life cycle performance of buildings by focusing on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along the building life cycle is considered a crucial step in achieving global climate targets. This paper provides a systemati...
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Hossein Omrany, Veronica Soebarto, Jian Zuo and Ruidong Chang
This paper aims to propose a comprehensive framework for a clear description of system boundary conditions in life cycle energy assessment (LCEA) analysis in order to promote the incorporation of embodied energy impacts into building energy-efficiency re...
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Social Housing (SH) in Mexico has a potentially important role in reducing both the emission of greenhouse gases and the use of non-renewable resources, two of the main challenges facing not only Mexico but the planet as a whole. This work assesses the e...
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Damilola Ekundayo, Solomon Olusola Babatunde, Aisha Ekundayo, Srinath Perera, Chika Udeaja
Life cycle carbon emissions (LCO2), made up of operational and embodied carbon, have become a major metric of building environmental performance and energy efficiency. Whilst there are now standard methods for operational carbon assessment due to its sig...
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Christos V. Katsiropoulos, Andreas Loukopoulos and Spiros G. Pantelakis
In the present work the carbon footprint and the financial viability of different materials, manufacturing scenarios, as well as recycling scenarios, associated with the production of aeronautical structural components are assessed. The materials conside...
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Nadia MIRABELLA, Martin RÖCK, Marcella Ruschi Mendes SAADE, Carolin SPIRINCKX, Marc BOSMANS, Karen ALLACKER and Alexander PASSER
Globally, the building sector is responsible for more than 40% of energy use and it contributes approximately 30% of the global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. This high contribution stimulates research and policies to reduce the operational energy use a...
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Manuela Almeida, Marco Ferreira and Ricardo Barbosa
The construction sector is facing increasingly strict energy efficiency regulations. Existing buildings have specific technical, functional and economic constraints, which, in fulfilling regulations, could lead to costly and complex renovation procedures...
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