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Benchmarks for Embodied and Operational Energy Assessment of Hellenic Single-Family Houses
Energies, 2020 Building energy performance benchmarking increases awareness and enables stakeholders to make better informed decisions for designing, operating, and renovating sustainable buildings.
Elena G. Dascalaki +4 more
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Reduction of Carbon Footprint of Building Structures
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2012 Degradation of environment is currently at huge risk because of factors related to population growth, resource consumption, industrial activity, etc. This situation is causing serious environmental problems which called for new building developments to ...
M. Culáková +3 more
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House Embodied Energy and Zero Energy Building Concept
Environmental Research, Engineering and Management, 2010 Seeking to mitigate climate change it is impossible to avoid radical changes in construction sector, because it accounts for 40% of primary energy use for buildings operation in Europe and other countries. Production of building materials also affects climate change and environment quality.
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Environmental Assessment of Buildings – A Suggestion
Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering, 2020 This article proposes to contribute to the discussion on environmental product declarations for buildings. Using a simple life-cycle analysis of a low-energy detached house and CO2-equivalent emissions as a comparative unit, the case study presented ...
Jamnický Martin, Rabenseifer Roman
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Acta Structilia, 2012 This article investigates the role that architecture can play in mitigating climate change by comparing the environmental impact of construction material use in two existing South African Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stations in Johannesburg and Cape Town and
Jan Hugo +2 more
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Embodied Energy and CO2 Emissions of Widely Used Building Materials: The Ethiopian Context
Buildings, 2019 Buildings use a wide range of construction materials, and the manufacturing of each material consumes energy and emits CO2. Several studies have already been conducted to evaluate the embodied energy and the related CO2 emissions of building materials ...
Woubishet Zewdu Taffese +1 more
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An Analysis of the Embodied Energy and Embodied Carbon of Refugee Shelters Worldwide
The International Journal of the Constructed Environment, 2019 The delivery of health, food, and shelter to the 68.5 million people displaced worldwide represents a significant challenge. Camps can house hundreds of thousands of people, and the provision of shelter on such a scale uses considerable amounts of energy and construction materials.
Aude Matard +6 more
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EnergiesEmbodied energy flows link production systems with the energy sector, reflecting dependencies and structural risks under globalization and regional coordination.
Qiqi Liu, Yu Yang, Yi Liu, Xiaoying Qian
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Embodied energy and carbon assessment of existing affordable apartments in Indonesia
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringThe Indonesian government is making a tremendous effort in the provision of affordable public apartments (Rusunawa) across the country. Rusunawa buildings were designed and built considering urban planning, environmental impact, architecture, strength ...
Rudi Setiadji Agustiningtyas +3 more
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Embodied Energy Optimization of Prestressed Concrete Road Flyovers by a Two-Phase Kriging Surrogate Model. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2023 Yepes-Bellver L +3 more
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