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Cristiane Bueno, João Adriano Rossignolo, Letícia Missiatto Gavioli, Camila Cassola Assunção Sposito, Fernando Gustavo Tonin, Mariana Matera Veras, Maria Júlia Bassan de Moraes and Gabriela Pitolli Lyra
Environmental risks and vulnerabilities in coastal regions include the massive deposits of brown algae of the genus Sargassum in regions such as the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and northern Brazil. Efforts have been made to turn this problem into an oppor...
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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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Sayyed Shoaib-ul-Hasan, Malvina Roci, Farazee M. A. Asif, Niloufar Salehi and Amir Rashid
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is used frequently as a decision support tool for evaluating different design choices for products based on their environmental impacts. A life cycle usually comprises several phases of varying timespans. The amount of emissio...
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Alka Khadka, Soojin Yoon, Richard G. Walker, Amy King Lewis and Yeonjin Bae
This study aims to propose a sustainable shelter design involving energy savings, less environmental impact, and rapid construction. The structural design of the shelter is based on 3D-printing technology. Sustainability assessments, including life cycle...
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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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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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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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Bin Huang, Ke Xing and Rameez Rameezdeen
Structural components represent major contributors to embodied carbon emissions of buildings. While there have been numerous research efforts dedicated to modelling and assessing the embodied carbon impact of buildings, there is a conspicuous gap in rese...
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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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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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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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Juanjuan Cheng, Qian Wang, Dongjian Li and Jin Yu
China is the world?s largest apple producer, and agricultural cooperatives play an important role in promoting sustainable production in its whole life cycle system. However, few studies on cooperatives have evaluated the environmental and economic perfo...
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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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Emmanouil Tziolas, Stefanos Ispikoudis, Konstantinos Mantzanas, Dimitrios Koutsoulis and Anastasia Pantera
Preservation and promotion of agroforestry systems entails the ideology for more ecosystem services, additional biodiversity benefits and climate change mitigation. Furthermore, farmland and forest landscapes and the consequent benefits to the environmen...
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Muataz Dhaif and André Stephan
In hot and humid climatic conditions, cooling tends to dominate building thermal energy use. Cooling loads can be reduced through the adoption of efficient building envelope materials, such as Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). This study quantifies the...
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Christos V. Katsiropoulos, Spiros G. Pantelakis, Marco Barile and Leonardo Lecce
?he development of a novel hybrid thermoplastic prepreg material enabling the fabrication of next-generation recyclable composite aerostructures produced by affordable, automated technologies is presented in the present work. The new hybrid material is p...
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Nelson Bunyui Manjong, Lorenzo Usai, Odne Stokke Burheim and Anders Hammer Strømman
Sustainable battery production with low environmental footprints requires a systematic assessment of the entire value chain, from raw material extraction and processing to battery production and recycling. In order to explore and understand the variation...
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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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