A life cycle based green building product labelling scheme [PDF]
, 2014 Buildings account for 40 per cent of the overall environmental burden in industrialised countries. Acknowledging that thousands of building materials are available and many might have adverse impact to the environment, careful selection of green building
Ng, ST, Wong, CTC
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Empirical life cycle analysis (LCA) of wind turbines
Discover Applied SciencesThis paper approaches in a didactic manner the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology for wind turbines, starting from the definition of the purpose and limits of the LCA system, continuing with the Life Cycle Inventory—LCI, and Life Cycle Impact ...
Nicolae Badea, Ciprian Vlad
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Adaptation of environmental data to national and sectorial context: application for reinforcing steel sold on the French market [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: Environmental data for steel products are generally proposed at a continental or a global scale. The question we are tackling here is: does the fact that steel as a global market necessarily reduces the need for national data?
Brière, Raphael +5 more
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Journal Transnational Universal StudiesThe development of competency standards for creating Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) is crucial for enhancing brand reputation by ensuring accurate, reliable, and internationally compliant environmental reporting. This study aims to systematically develop and validate these standards to support sustainable business practices, employing a ...
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Developing scientifically-sound Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules: development options, challenges and implications [PDF]
, 2013 The Environmental Footprint (EF), launched by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in cooperation with Directorate-General for the Environment, provides general guidance for comprehensive, scientifically-sound and consistent environmental ...
ALLACKER KAREN JOSEE +3 more
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GHG emissions of green coffee production : toward a standard methodology for carbon footprinting : report [PDF]
In this project, the scope for product specific rules for carbon footprinting of (green) coffee is investigated and a proposal is drafted for further work toward actual definition and implementation of such a ...
Sevenster, M., Verhagen, A.
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A környezetbarát beszerzés gyakorlata Norvégiában és Magyarországon [PDF]
, 2011 A Fenntartható fejlődés irányába való törekvések mind vállalati, mind kormányzati szinten jól hasznosíthatják a „zöld beszerzés” gyakorlatát, melynek célja a környezeti és társadalmi szempontok érvényre juttatása a vállalati, illetve kormányzati ...
Magerholm Fet, Annik, Zilahy, Gyula
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, 2022 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analyses all phases of the life cycle of a construction product, takes into account the different impacts of these phases on the environment, evaluates, analyses and interprets the results. In life cycle assessment, the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a standardized way of quantifying the impact of a product or ...
Spasojević-Šantić, Tea +1 more
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Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of SLS and mFFF Additive Manufacturing Techniques for the Production of a Metal Specimen. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2023 Presciutti A +4 more
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Life cycle assessment of a solar PV/T concentrator system [PDF]
, 2011 The paper shows the energy and environmental analysis of a solar low Concentrating Photovoltaic-Thermal (CPVT) system, installed on the roof of the Energy Department building at University of Palermo (Italy).
CELLURA, Maurizio +4 more
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