A review on life cycle assessment, life cycle energy assessment and life cycle carbon emissions assessment on buildings

CK Chau, TM Leung, WY Ng - Applied energy, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review on three streams of life cycle studies that have been frequently
applied to evaluate the environmental impacts of building construction with a major focus on …

A review of structural, thermo-physical, acoustical, and environmental properties of wooden materials for building applications

F Asdrubali, B Ferracuti, L Lombardi, C Guattari… - Building and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The current environmental and energetic crisis and the resulting regulations led to a new
interest in using sustainable materials for building applications. Wood can be a material with …

Key factors of sustainability in project management context: A survey exploring the project managers' perspective

ML Martens, MM Carvalho - International journal of project management, 2017 - Elsevier
Topics of project management and sustainability have been addressed by countless studies,
but research focusing on the intersection of these topics are needed. This research looks at …

A critical analysis of LEED, BREEAM and DGNB as sustainability assessment methods for retail buildings

A Ferreira, MD Pinheiro, J de Brito, R Mateus - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background: Retail stores are among the building typologies with the highest consumption
of natural resources. Hence, understanding how retail stores can integrate sustainability …

Life cycle recurrent embodied energy calculation of buildings: A review

MK Dixit - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Buildings use approximately 48% of global energy each year in their construction and
operation as embodied and operating energy. The embodied energy is used directly …

Sustainable criterion selection framework for green building materials–An optimisation based study of fly-ash Geopolymer concrete

M Sandanayake, C Gunasekara, D Law… - Sustainable Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Green materials are considered as one of the prominent elements in designing an
environmentally sustainable construction project. Studies have highlighted cement …

Properties of concrete paving blocks made with waste marble

O Gencel, C Ozel, F Koksal, E Erdogmus… - Journal of cleaner …, 2012 - Elsevier
Marble industry produces large amounts of waste marble–what causes environmental
problems. In paving blocks based on two cement types we have partly replaced aggregate …

System boundary for embodied energy in buildings: A conceptual model for definition

MK Dixit, CH Culp, JL Fernández-Solís - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2013 - Elsevier
Buildings consume nearly 40% of global energy annually in their production, operation,
maintenance, replacement and demolition stages. Energy consumed in their life cycle …

Use of wood in green building: a study of expert perspectives from the UK

L Wang, A Toppinen, H Juslin - Journal of cleaner production, 2014 - Elsevier
Green building (GB) is an emerging topic in research. However, few studies have directly
linked wood materials with the concept of GB. Here, we attempt to increase our …

Current sustainable trends of using waste materials in concrete—a decade review

M Sandanayake, Y Bouras, R Haigh, Z Vrcelj - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Concrete is the most used construction material in the world. Consequently, the mass
extraction of virgin materials required for concrete production causes major environmental …