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Ji Bian, Changchun Liu, Chunyang Zuo, Jianli Hao, Wenting Ma, Baoyin Duan, Congda Chen and Jixuan Liu
Since decoration is an essential part of buildings, the carbon emissions generated by decoration work should not be ignored. In recent years, prefabricated decoration has attracted much attention as efforts are made to pursue green, low-carbon, and waste...
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Yi Liu, Yiting Deng, Zhen Liu and Mohamed Osmani
At present, increased modes of transport have facilitated daily life. Building information modeling (BIM) integration has become a key strategy to foster efficiency, collaboration, and sustainability in the fields of buildings, transport, and facilities....
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Josephine Vaughan, Rebecca Evans and Willy Sher
Accounting for the embodied carbon in construction materials and calculating the carbon footprint of entire construction projects in life-cycle assessments is a rapidly developing area in the construction industry. Carbon emission accounting relies on in...
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Nicole Di Santo, Leidy Guante Henriquez, Giovanni Dotelli and Marco Imperadori
Due to our increasing dependence on resources and energy, climate change is among the most tangible issues we are facing today. The construction industry has been identified as a key sector to intervene in, but mitigation strategies must focus on more th...
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Slawomir Czarnecki and Marlena Rudner
In the European Union, more than 20% of residential buildings were constructed prior to 1945 and are approaching the end of their projected lifespan. This necessitates renovations or demolitions of these structures. A study was conducted to analyze the q...
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Hyojin Lim, Sungho Tae and Seungjun Roh
This study aimed to analyze the major building materials in terms of environmental impact evaluation of school buildings in South Korea. Three existing school buildings were selected as the analysis targets, and building materials were analyzed in terms ...
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Xinnan Chen, Hairuo Wang, Junxue Zhang, He Zhang, Ashish T. Asutosh, Guodong Wu, Guobin Wei, Yaling Shi and Minghui Yang
In the context of ecological building and green building popularity, building sustainability assessment is becoming more and more important. In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation platform by coupled LCA method and energy method was designed, verified...
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Tayyab Ahmad and Muhammad Jamaluddin Thaheem
Building materials with a low environmental impact are critical to the sustainability of the built environment. The environmental impact of materials can be determined by a Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), which constitutes multiple parameters such a...
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José Ignacio Avendaño, Sisi Zlatanova, Pedro Pérez, Alberto Domingo and Christian Correa
This study aims to design a BIM integration model for steel building projects (BIM-DFE). It was developed in the following three phases: (i) theoretical phase, (ii) validation phase, and (iii) statistical analysis for the theoretical phase. A literature ...
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Ashit Harode, Mahnaz Ensafi and Walid Thabet
Facility lifecycle data captured in BIM during design and construction are very valuable for effective facility operations and maintenance. Traditionally, model authoring and analysis tools have been used to search and query model information. These tool...
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Kaining Shen, Lan Ding and Cynthia Changxin Wang
Decision-making on whole-life-cycle net-zero-carbon buildings is critical for addressing carbon emission and environmental problems. However, there is a lack of a data integration framework and an open international standard approach integrating key deci...
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Ming Hu
According to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction published by the United Nations Environment Programme, global carbon emissions from the building sector in 2019 were nearly 14 gigatons (Gt), representing 38% of total global carbo...
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Naglaa A. Megahed and Asmaa M. Hassan
The architecture, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry is evolving rapidly. In particular, technological advancements and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic are shaping the industry?s future. Various artificial intelligence (A...
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Sobhi Mejjaouli
Because of their significant energy consumption and its economic and environmental impacts, existing buildings offer decision makers opportunities and challenges at the same time. In fact, there is a worldwide effort to improve the energy performance of ...
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Bojana Petrovic, Xingxing Zhang, Ola Eriksson and Marita Wallhagen
The objective of this paper was to explore long-term costs for a single-family house in Sweden during its entire lifetime. In order to estimate the total costs, considering construction, replacement, operation, and end-of-life costs over the long term, t...
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The environmental performance assessment of the building and construction sector has been in discussion due to the increasing demand of facilities and its impact on the environment. The life cycle studies carried out over the last decade have mostly used...
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Worldwide, an increasing number of new buildings have photovoltaics (PV) integrated in the building envelope. In Switzerland, the use of coloured PV façades has become popular due to improved visual acceptance. At the same time, life cycle assessm...
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José Sánchez Ramos, Servando Álvarez Domínguez, MCarmen Pavón Moreno, MCarmen Guerrero Delgado, Laura Romero Rodríguez and José Antonio Tenorio Ríos
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Giuseppe Todde, Lelia Murgia, Maria Caria and Antonio Pazzona
Dairy cattle farms are continuously developing more intensive systems of management, which require higher utilization of durable and non-durable inputs. These inputs are responsible for significant direct and indirect fossil energy requirements, which ar...
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Stephen Y. C. Yim, S. Thomas Ng, M. U. Hossain and James M. W. Wong
Despite the fact that many novel initiatives have been put forward to reduce the carbon emissions of buildings, there is still a lack of comprehensive investigation in analyzing a buildings’ life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially in ...
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