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Greenhouse Gas Reduction Opportunities for Local Governments: A Quantification and Prioritization Framework [PDF]
, 2020 Local governments have steadily increased their initiative to address global climate change, and many present their proposed strategies through climate action plans (CAPs). This study conducts a literature review on current local approaches to greenhouse
Butt, Ali A. +5 more
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Disposable baby diapers: Life cycle costs, eco-efficiency and circular economy
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 The literature on baby diapers has so far focused on environmental implications of using cloth instead of disposable products, utilising bio-materials or enabling recycling and composting.
J. F. Mendoza +3 more
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Analysis Of Uncertainty Over The Factory Life Cycle
Proceedings of the Conference on Production Systems and Logistics, 2023 The cost and performance structure of a factory is determined in factory planning and activated in the operation phase with a time delay. Even though the majority of investments result from structural planning, the first conceptual and most important ...
Hingst, Lennart +4 more
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Life Cycle Cost Modelling of Buildings with Consideration of the Risk
Archives of Civil Engineering, 2016 The paper presents an approach to evaluating a building throughout its whole life cycle in relation to its sustainable development. It describes basic tools and techniques of evaluating and analysing the costs in the whole life cycle of the building ...
Plebankiewicz E., Zima K., Wieczorek D.
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Salt marshes for flood risk reduction: Quantifying long-term effectiveness and life-cycle costs
Ocean and Coastal Management, 2019 Flood risks are increasing worldwide due to climate change and ongoing economic and demographic development in coastal areas. Salt marshes can function as vegetated foreshores that reduce wave loads on coastal structures such as dikes and dams, thereby ...
V. Vuik +3 more
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Principii de bază privind metodologia costurilor pe ciclul de viaţă al construcţiilor la nivel european [PDF]
Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2011 Making life-cycle cost methodology is an acknowledgment of the need for Europe-wide methodology for life cycle buildings costs. The aim of this study is to provide a methodological framework for the universal application of lifetime costs in the ...
Silviu Lambrache
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Life Cycle Costs Analysis of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) Under Future Climate
Sustainability, 2019 Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) has received wide application in asphalt pavement construction and maintenance and it has shown cost-effectiveness over virgin hot mix asphalt (HMA).
Y. Qiao +7 more
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Smart rail infrastructure, maintenance and life cycle costs [PDF]
Transport Problems, 2014 This paper discusses smart railway infrastructure systems. The meaning of “smart” is described followed by a discussion on the benefits of the use of smart infrastructure.
Mihai NICULESCU +4 more
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Sustainable roadway construction: Economic and social impacts of roadways in the context of Ethiopia
Cogent Engineering, 2021 Sustainable roadway construction can be defined as the optimal use of resources during the roadway life-cycle reducing the economic and social impacts. Two means of improving the sustainability of roadways are the appropriate selection of pavement types ...
Tariku Dessu Habte
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Energy Reports, 2023 After the Chinese government announced its goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in September 2020, a series of carbon reduction policies have been introduced on the energy consumption and production side without taking into account energy ...
Xiaomin Chen, Yangting Ou
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