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Matthias Buyle, Amaryllis Audenaert, Johan Braet and Wim Debacker
Over the past decades, the construction sector has focused strongly on reducing operational energy consumption. Other types of environmental impact that occur during the life span of construction works, however, have to be taken into account as well. Thi...
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Matthias Finkbeiner, Erwin M. Schau, Annekatrin Lehmann and Marzia Traverso
Sustainability is nowadays accepted by all stakeholders as a guiding principle for both public policy making and corporate strategies. However, the biggest challenge for most organizations remains in the real and substantial implementation of the sustain...
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Pujitha Ganapathi Chottemada, Arkamitra Kar and Patricia Kara De Maeijer
The scientific community is shifting its focus towards construction materials with a low carbon footprint, such as alkali-activated concrete (AAC). The present study conducts an environmental impact assessment using the cradle-to-grave approach to examin...
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Alberto Picardo, Víctor M. Soltero and Estela Peralta
The construction sector is one of the leading global contributors to environmental footprint, with road infrastructures being a significant resource consumer. The traditional practice of using virgin raw materials and extracting natural aggregates has a ...
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Emmanouil Tziolas, Stefanos Ispikoudis, Konstantinos Mantzanas, Dimitrios Koutsoulis and Anastasia Pantera
Preservation and promotion of agroforestry systems entails the ideology for more ecosystem services, additional biodiversity benefits and climate change mitigation. Furthermore, farmland and forest landscapes and the consequent benefits to the environmen...
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Juanjuan Cheng, Qian Wang, Dongjian Li and Jin Yu
China is the world?s largest apple producer, and agricultural cooperatives play an important role in promoting sustainable production in its whole life cycle system. However, few studies on cooperatives have evaluated the environmental and economic perfo...
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Neel Renne, Patricia Kara De Maeijer, Bart Craeye, Matthias Buyle and Amaryllis Audenaert
Nowadays, a vast number of concrete structures are approaching the end of their expected service life. The need for maintenance and repair is high due to the continued deterioration of the existing building inventory and infrastructure, resulting in a la...
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Christos V. Katsiropoulos, Spiros G. Pantelakis, Marco Barile and Leonardo Lecce
?he development of a novel hybrid thermoplastic prepreg material enabling the fabrication of next-generation recyclable composite aerostructures produced by affordable, automated technologies is presented in the present work. The new hybrid material is p...
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Muataz Dhaif and André Stephan
In hot and humid climatic conditions, cooling tends to dominate building thermal energy use. Cooling loads can be reduced through the adoption of efficient building envelope materials, such as Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). This study quantifies the...
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The subject of the study are methods and models for extracting information about the processes of the life cycle of radio electronic means at the design, production and operation stages. The goal is to develop the fundamentals of the theory of holistic m...
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Mieke Vandenbroucke, Waldo Galle, Niels De Temmerman, Wim Debacker and Anne Paduart
Because the student residences of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel built in 1973 are not adapted to current comfort standards, the university decided to construct new accommodation facilities at the border of the campus. However, besides demolition, there ...
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Miguel Brandão, Roland Clift, Llorenç Milà i Canals and Lauren Basson
An integrated environmental and economic assessment of land use for food, energy and timber in the UK has been performed using environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and economic Life Cycle Costing (LCC), to explore complementary sustainability aspect...
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Xabat Oregi, Patxi Hernandez, Cristina Gazulla and Marina Isasa
The life cycle assessment (LCA) method is a powerful tool that can serve to aid decision making regarding the environmental benefits of refurbishment projects. However, due to the relative complexity of LCA studies, simplified LCA methodologies are frequ...
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Alexandre Hugo and Radu Zmeureanu
The reduction of electricity use for heating and domestic hot water in cold climates can be achieved by: (1) reducing the heating loads through the improvement of the thermal performance of house envelopes, and (2) using solar energy through a residentia...
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Erwin M. Schau, Marzia Traverso, Annekatrin Lehmann and Matthias Finkbeiner
Sustainability is on the international agenda, and is a driver for industry in international competition. Sustainability encompasses the three pillars: environment, society and economy. To prevent shifting of burden, the whole life cycle needs to be take...
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Abdul Rauf, Daniel Efurosibina Attoye and Robert Crawford
Extensive focus on operational energy research has positively impacted both academia and policymakers, facilitating new strategies that reduce the energy consumed by building occupants. Much less emphasis has, however, been given to embodied energy. Cons...
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Daniel Satola, Martin Röck, Aoife Houlihan-Wiberg and Arild Gustavsen
Improving the environmental life cycle performance of buildings by focusing on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along the building life cycle is considered a crucial step in achieving global climate targets. This paper provides a systemati...
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Sundus Shaheen,Rabia Nazir,Noreen Mehar,Fareeha Adil
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The purpose of this research study is to determine the influence of the different organizational life cycle stages in modeling the quality of corporate governance. The study employs data of 46 companies listed with the KSE 100 index and uses a governance...
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Peng Du, Antony Wood, Brent Stephens and Xiaoyu Song
It is commonly accepted that the concentration of people in high-density urban city centers, which are typically dominated by medium- and high-rise buildings located close to public transit systems, offers greater overall energy efficiency and lower life...
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Rajive Dhingra, Sasikumar Naidu, Girish Upreti and Rapinder Sawhney
Citing the myriad applications of nanotechnology, this paper emphasizes the need to conduct ?life cycle? based assessments as early in the new product development process as possible, for a better understanding of the potential environmental and human he...
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