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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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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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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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Ming Hu
According to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction published by the United Nations Environment Programme, global carbon emissions from the building sector in 2019 were nearly 14 gigatons (Gt), representing 38% of total global carbo...
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Melissa Chan, Md. Asrul Nasid Masrom and Suleiman Said Yasin
The construction sector in Malaysia has been facing challenges in productivity due to the increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study aims to enhance the usage of low-carbon building materials among construction professionals so that the carbo...
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Hanbyeol Jang, Yonghan Ahn and Seungjun Roh
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Soren Wandahl, Christina T. Pérez, Stephanie Salling, Hasse H. Neve, Jon Lerche, Steffen Petersen
The European Green Deal's Renovation Wave aims to renovate 35 million energy-inefficient buildings to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by at least 55% by 2030. Historically, efforts to reduce CO2 emissions focused on Operational Energy (OE) of the f...
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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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Huiping Huang, Xinsheng Li, Lianhai Cao, Dongdong Jia, Junlong Zhang, Chunying Wang and Yuping Han
In the globalized world, water utilization and carbon emissions are two important indicators for water and energy resources evaluation. This paper investigates the inter-sectoral linkage and external trade of virtual water (water embodied in products) an...
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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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