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Embodied energy of rice husk ash for sustainable cement production
Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2020 After water, concrete is the second most used material in the world. Using life cycle assessments, concrete has typically been found to be 80% of a residential building by weight.
Cameron S. Henry, Joan G. Lynam
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Embodied energy use in China's industrial sectors
, 2012 As the world's top energy consumer, China is facing a great challenge to solve its energy supply issue. In this paper energy use from all industrial sectors in China's economy of 2007 was explored by conducting an extended environmental input-output ...
Liu, Zhu +5 more
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3D-mapping optimization of embodied energy of transportation [PDF]
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2007 The recent development of Google Earth, an information service that provides imagery and three dimensional data depicting the entire Earth, provides an opportunity to use a new method of navigating information to save energy in the real world. Google Earth uses Keyhole Markup Language (KML) for modeling and storing geographic features and information ...
Pearce, Joshua +2 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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Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2023 Buildings contribute significantly to global energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Climate change affects building performance, particularly heating and cooling demands. While current policies focus on improving energy performance and reducing
Delphine Ramon, Karen Allacker
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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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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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Embodied energy assessment for Macao's external trade
, 2014 As a typical heterotrophic city, Macao's economic boom is fueled by external trade, which provides Macao with not only direct energy products in forms of oil, gas and electricity, but also indirect energy embodied in other imports.
Hayat, T. +5 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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Incorporating embodied energy in the BIM process
, 2012 This paper examines the incorporation of carbon data into the Building Information Model (BIM) process and considers option appraisals that will enable design team members to evaluate both operational and embodied CO2 emissions over the life cycle of a ...
Lockley, Steve +4 more
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