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Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016 Consumption of ready-made meals is growing rapidly and yet little is known about their economic and environmental impacts. This paper focuses on the economic aspects to estimate the life cycle costs, value added and consumer costs of ready-made meals, in
X. S. Rivera, A. Azapagic
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Life Cycle Environmental Costs of Buildings
Energies, 2020 Energy consumption and pollutant emissions from buildings have caused serious impacts on the environment. Currently, research on building environmental costs is quite insufficient.
Yuanfeng Wang +6 more
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Life cycle costs and impacts of massive slabs with varying concrete cover
Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2021 Considering construction costs, predicted service life, and related environmental impacts, this paper evaluates the influence of varied concrete cover thicknesses in the life cycle of a reinforced concrete structure.
M.F.F. Menna Barreto +4 more
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Bridge Construction. An Economical and Sustainable Approach
Darnios Aplinkos Vystymas, 2022 This paper presents a methodology that quantifies the life cycle costs of concrete decks of roadway bridges that supports the decision-making regarding the optimal selection between several construction / repair alternatives.
José Almeida
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Economic Analysis of Heat Distribution Concepts for a Small Solar District Heating System
Energies, 2022 One challenge in today’s district heating systems is the relatively high distribution heat loss. Lowering distribution temperatures is one way to reduce operational costs resulting from high heat losses, while changing the distribution system from steel ...
Martin Andersen +2 more
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Strategic management tools and their application in innovation processes [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The development of new technologies and innovation processes lead companies to improve their processes, resulting in new products all the time. Throughout the product life cycle, a firm incurs various costs related to the activities carried out in the ...
Kufelová Iveta, Raková Monika
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Life Cycle Costing of Structures Fabricated from Carbon and Stainless Steel [PDF]
Journal of Engineering Research - Egypt, 2022 Historically, structural material selection has been dependent on initial material cost. However, increasing pressure on the construction industry to examine projects' long-term financial and environmental effects is pushing a more holistic approach.
mohamed abdel_ghany +2 more
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Impact of Cycle Time and Payload of an Industrial Robot on Resource Efficiency
Robotics, 2021 Modern industry benefits from the automation capabilities and flexibility of robots. Consequently, the performance depends on the individual task, robot and trajectory, while application periods of several years lead to a significant impact of the use ...
Florian Stuhlenmiller +5 more
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Expert studies on the impact of risk on the life cycle costs of buildings [PDF]
Archives of Civil Engineering, 2023 The main goal of the studies was to collect information on the impact of the identified risk factors on the amount of costs incurred in the life cycle of buildings. The own studies were focused especially on residential and non-residential buildings. The
Damian Wieczorek +2 more
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International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 2017 João Santos +3 more
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