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Josephine Vaughan, Rebecca Evans and Willy Sher
Accounting for the embodied carbon in construction materials and calculating the carbon footprint of entire construction projects in life-cycle assessments is a rapidly developing area in the construction industry. Carbon emission accounting relies on in...
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Fabrizio Ascione, Francesco Esposito, Giacomo Iovane, Diana Faiella, Beatrice Faggiano and Elena Mele
The paper focuses on tall timber buildings. The major aim of this paper is to identify the most sustainable and efficient structural system to increase the height of timber buildings, also considering steel?timber hybrid structures. First of all, a brief...
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Greg White
Airport pavements have always evolved to keep pace with the demands of new aircraft. As aircraft weights and tyre pressures increase, stronger, new pavements are designed and existing pavements are rehabilitated or upgraded. The narrow-body commercial je...
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Bojana Petrovic, Ola Eriksson, Xingxing Zhang and Marita Wallhagen
Previous research has shown a lack of studies with comparisons between primary (virgin) and secondary (re-used) building materials, and their embodied emissions. The creation of different scenarios comparing the environmental impact of virgin vs. re-used...
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Hao Chen, Erdan Wang, Nuo Wang and Tao Song
The existence of interprovincial embodied carbon transfer not only makes it difficult to achieve carbon emission reductions but also exacerbates the inequity, inefficiency, and high costs of interprovincial carbon emission reduction rights and responsibi...
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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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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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Rui Song, Jing Liu, Kunyu Niu and Yiyu Feng
Accelerating economic globalization is a major driver of the transfer of embodied pollutant emissions from trade. China and the United States are currently the largest importers and exporters of agricultural products, respectively, and are also major pro...
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Shahrokh Maalek, Reza Maalek and Bahareh Maalek
This paper examined the opportunities of composite double-layer grid superstructures in short-to-medium span bridge decks. It was empirically shown here that a double-layer grid deck system in composite action with a thin layer of two-way reinforced conc...
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Xinrui He, Wenli Jia, Yuxiang Dong and Mohammad Siahkouhi
The railway industry has shown a strong interest in utilizing sustainable materials, including recycled materials and composites, in construction. Bamboo, as a highly renewable natural resource, has been proposed as a construction material for the railwa...
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