Taking stock of built environment stock studies: Progress and prospects

M Lanau, G Liu, U Kral, D Wiedenhofer… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Built environment stocks (buildings and infrastructures) play multiple roles in our socio-
economic metabolism: they serve as the backbone of modern societies and human well …

Components reuse in the building sector–A systematic review

K Rakhshan, JC Morel, H Alaka… - Waste Management & …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Widespread reuse of building components can promote the circularity of materials in the
building sector. However, the reuse of building components is not yet a mainstream practise …

Building feature‐based machine learning regression to quantify urban material stocks: A Hong Kong study

L Yuan, W Lu, F Xue, M Li - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Urban material stock (UMS) represents elegant thinking by perceiving cities as a repository
of construction materials that can be reused in the future, rather than a burdensome …

Thematic exploration of sectoral and cross-cutting challenges to circular economy implementation

S Singh, C Babbitt, G Gaustad, MJ Eckelman… - Clean technologies and …, 2021 - Springer
Circular economy (CE) offers a pathway towards sustainable, closed-loop resource systems,
but widespread adoption across industrial sectors is limited by fragmented knowledge and …

Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) in India: generation rate and implications of C&DW recycling

S Jain, S Singhal, NK Jain - International Journal of Construction …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) management is gaining attention from policy
makers in India. This article estimates C&DW generation from urban building, rural building …

Construction and demolition waste generation in cities in India: an integrated approach

S Jain, S Singhal, NK Jain - International Journal of Sustainable …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper quantifies construction and demolition waste (C&DW) generation rate in Indian
cities using bottom-up material flow analysis approach. A dynamic model was applied to …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle carbon emissions of different land conversion and woody biomass utilization scenarios in Indonesia

R Aryapratama, S Pauliuk - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Wood-based products can contribute to climate change mitigation by prolonging the storage
of carbon in the anthroposphere. In Indonesia, however, many wood-based products …

RASMI: Global ranges of building material intensities differentiated by region, structure, and function

T Fishman, A Mastrucci, Y Peled, S Saxe… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
The construction materials used in buildings have large and growing implications for global
material flows and emissions. Material Intensity (MI) is a metric that measures the mass of …

Building material stock analysis is critical for effective circular economy strategies: a comprehensive review

R Mohammadiziazi, MM Bilec - … Research: Infrastructure and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Buildings account for the largest share of accumulated materials and waste globally.
Tracking the material composition, quantity and location of these materials, known as …

Mining the built environment: telling the story of urban mining

F Aldebei, M Dombi - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Materials are continuously accumulating in the human-built environment since massive
amounts of materials are required for building, developing, and maintaining cities. At the end …