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Hafiz Haq, Petri Välisuo and Seppo Niemi
Industrial symbiosis networks conventionally provide economic and environmental benefits to participating industries. However, most studies have failed to quantify waste management solutions and identify network connections in addition to methodological ...
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Sanja Ti?ma and Mira Mileusnic ?krtic
The application of blockchain technology in the field of environmental economics is still in its inception so it is not sufficiently used in a holistic and integrated life cycle sustainability assessment (HILCSA). The capability of the blockchain to prov...
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Julia Zeulner, Vanessa Zeller and Liselotte Schebek
Manufacturing processes have a significant contribution to energy consumption and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a product?s life cycle. Today, information on GHG emissions is increasingly demanded from companies in a life cycle perspective, b...
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Yahong Dong, Peng Liu and Md. Uzzal Hossain
Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) has been increasingly implemented in a wide spectrum of products. Considering the vital importance of buildings to human lives, it is surprising that there have been few LCSA case studies of buildings from main...
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Pujitha Ganapathi Chottemada, Arkamitra Kar and Patricia Kara De Maeijer
The scientific community is shifting its focus towards construction materials with a low carbon footprint, such as alkali-activated concrete (AAC). The present study conducts an environmental impact assessment using the cradle-to-grave approach to examin...
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Alberto Picardo, Víctor M. Soltero and Estela Peralta
The construction sector is one of the leading global contributors to environmental footprint, with road infrastructures being a significant resource consumer. The traditional practice of using virgin raw materials and extracting natural aggregates has a ...
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Georgios F. Banias, Christos Karkanias, Maria Batsioula, Lefteris D. Melas, Apostolos E. Malamakis, Dimitris Geroliolios, Stamatia Skoutida and Xenofon Spiliotis
The management of solid waste is currently seen as one of the most important concerns that national authorities, particularly in south Europe, must address. In recent years, emphasis has begun to be paid to Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) being t...
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Zahir Barahmand and Marianne S. Eikeland
In recent years, computer-based simulations have been used to enhance production processes, and sustainable industrial strategies are increasingly being considered in the manufacturing industry. In order to evaluate the performance of a gasification proc...
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Matthias Buyle, Amaryllis Audenaert, Johan Braet and Wim Debacker
Over the past decades, the construction sector has focused strongly on reducing operational energy consumption. Other types of environmental impact that occur during the life span of construction works, however, have to be taken into account as well. Thi...
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Matthias Finkbeiner, Erwin M. Schau, Annekatrin Lehmann and Marzia Traverso
Sustainability is nowadays accepted by all stakeholders as a guiding principle for both public policy making and corporate strategies. However, the biggest challenge for most organizations remains in the real and substantial implementation of the sustain...
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Neel Renne, Patricia Kara De Maeijer, Bart Craeye, Matthias Buyle and Amaryllis Audenaert
Nowadays, a vast number of concrete structures are approaching the end of their expected service life. The need for maintenance and repair is high due to the continued deterioration of the existing building inventory and infrastructure, resulting in a la...
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Filippo Cucinotta, Emmanuele Barberi and Fabio Salmeri
The naval sector holds paramount importance for the global economy, yet it entails significant environmental impacts throughout the entire life cycle of ships. This review explores the application of life-cycle assessment (LCA) in the naval sector, a met...
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Pamela Del Rosario and Marzia Traverso
This review summarizes the methods and approaches for quantifying the sustainability performance of roads based on the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) concept. Furthermore, research gaps and challenges in the sustainability assessment of roads are identified. W...
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Jingxuan Zhang, Sarah Fernando, David W. Law, Chamila Gunasekara, Sujeeva Setunge, Malindu Sandanayake and Guomin Zhang
Traditionally, the construction industry has predominantly used Portland cement (PC) to manufacture bricks, as it is one of the most-commonly available building materials. However, the employment of waste industrial material for brick production can lead...
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Jingjing Wu, Shane W. Rogers, Rebekah Schaummann and Nichole N. Price
Macroalgae can be processed into various products with the potential to substitute land-based crops; their cultivation can bioextract nutrients from coastal waters. This study investigated the economic cost and environmental impacts of multiple seaweed c...
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Bassem Jamoussi, Asad Abu-Rizaiza and Ali AL-Haij
Sustainable building practices are a response to environmental issues. Businesses and industries are assessing how their activities affect the environment. The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries have significant impacts on the en...
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Maria Chiara Zanetti and Angela Farina
Asphalt mixtures for road pavements are produced and laid at high temperatures, producing gaseous emissions that contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds that paving workers are exposed to. This paper aims to combine the ef...
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Fernando Pagels, Ana Arias, A. Catarina Guedes, António A. Vicente, Vitor Vasconcelos and Maria Teresa Moreira
Cyanobacteria have long attracted market interest as a source of natural compounds such as pigments with proven bioactivity (carotenoid and phycobiliproteins). The cultivation and extraction processes for such compounds have been developed at different l...
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Paula M. Wenzel and Peter Radgen
Cooling towers remove economically or technically unusable heat using considerable amounts of electricity and, in many cases, water. Several approaches, which vary in methodology, scope, and level of detail, are used for environmental evaluations of thes...
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Oluwafemi E. Ige, Oludolapo A. Olanrewaju, Kevin J. Duffy and Obiora C. Collins
The cement industry confronts significant challenges in raw materials, energy demands, and CO2 emissions reduction, which are global and local environmental concerns. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been used in many studies to assess the environmental i...
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