Urban mining from biomass, brine, sewage sludge, phosphogypsum and e-waste for reducing the environmental pollution: Current status of availability, potential, and …

R Agrawal, S Bhagia, A Satlewal, AJ Ragauskas - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid industrialization, improved standards of living, growing economies and ever-
increasing population has led to the unprecedented exploitation of the finite and non …

Recycling of photovoltaic modules for recovery and repurposing of materials

H Trivedi, A Meshram, R Gupta - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recycling of end-of-life photovoltaic modules (PVMs) attracts the attention of researchers
due to valuable materials present in it. With the advances in the PVM manufacturing newer …

An assessment of socioeconomic indicators and energy consumption by considering green financing

CC Lee, J Hussain - Resources Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Countries are now facing the problem of carbon emissions due to the high growth rate of
population. To bridge this gap of carbon emission reduction, this research investigates the …

Holistic life-cycle accounting of carbon emissions of prefabricated buildings using LCA and BIM

X Li, W Xie, L Xu, L Li, CY Jim, T Wei - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Prefabricated concrete building (PCB) can save resources, reduce construction, improve
quality, and reduce pollution. Understanding PCB environmental benefits versus traditional …

What we learn is what we earn from sustainable and circular construction

P Centobelli, R Cerchione, M Ertz, E Oropallo - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable and circular construction entails emissions and wastes reduction through the
reuse and recycling of materials to achieve economic gains and save resources for future …

Product stage embodied greenhouse gas reductions in single-family dwellings: Drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and variability between Toronto, Perth, and …

A Arceo, S Saxe, HL MacLean - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Reducing embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the construction of buildings is
increasingly recognized as necessary to meet medium-and long-term climate targets. The …

[HTML][HTML] Key strategies for decarbonizing the residential building stock: Results from a spatiotemporal model for Leiden, the Netherlands

X Yang, M Hu, C Zhang, B Steubing - Resources, Conservation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Decarbonizing the building stock plays an important role in realizing climate change
mitigation targets. To compare the decarbonization potential of different strategies, this study …

Toward a low‐carbon and circular building sector: Building strategies and urbanization pathways for the Netherlands

J van Oorschot, B Sprecher, B Rijken… - Journal of Industrial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Buildings are an important part of society's environmental impacts, both in the construction
and in the use phase. As the energy performance of buildings improve, construction …

Material intensity in single-family dwellings: Variability between locations, functional unit and drivers of material use in Toronto, Perth, and Luzon

A Arceo, HL MacLean, S Saxe - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2023 - Elsevier
This study examines variability in material use in single-family dwellings within and between
three different locations (Toronto, Perth, and Luzon). It investigates how the use of different …

[HTML][HTML] Macro-level economic and environmental sustainability of negative emission technologies; Case study of crushed silicate production for enhanced weathering

E Oppon, JS Richter, SCL Koh, H Nabayiga - Ecological Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Enhanced weathering (EW) involves application of crushed silicate rocks on croplands to
capture CO 2. Although research on EW is gaining traction, the missing elements in the …