A review of comprehensiveness, user-friendliness, and contribution for sustainable design of whole building environmental life cycle assessment software tools

S Karunaratne, D Dharmarathna - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Whole building environmental life cycle impact assessment enables to both construct and
operate buildings with least impacts while optimizing resource efficiency and conservation …

Evaluating the environmental impacts of conventional and modular buildings in absolute measures: A case study across different geographical contexts

SC Andersen, J Sohn, P Oldfield, M Birkved - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper assesses the environmental impacts of conventional and modular housing by
applying measures of 'absolute environmental sustainability'. It seeks to determine 1) the …

Analyses of the Life Cycles and Social Costs of CO2 Emissions of Single-Family Residential Buildings: A Case Study in Poland

G Kania, K Kwiecień, M Malinowski, M Gliniak - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Comprehensive environmental impact assessments of buildings and construction as a
whole consider the preparation of construction and finishing materials, their transportation …

Data driven quantification of the temporal scope of building LCAs

N Østergaard, L Thorsted, S Miraglia, M Birkved… - Procedia CIRP, 2018 - Elsevier
In the construction sector, LCAs typically apply an approach based on fixed or partially fixed
building lifespans/service lives/reference study period. The temporal scopes applied in …

Sustainable and Pseudo-Strain-Hardening Metakaolin and Fly Ash–Based Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Composites Activated with Potassium: Development and …

R Abufarsakh, H Noorvand, M Hassan… - Journal of Materials in …, 2025 - ascelibrary.org
The present research investigated the mechanical and physical properties of ambient-cured
potassium-activated metakaolin and fly ash (MKFA)–based geopolymer (GP) mortars and …

Building-SAT: a whole building life cycle assessment tool framework to quantify the global warming potential of buildings in South Asian Region

S Karunaratne, D Dharmarathna, N De Silva - Innovative Infrastructure …, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents a framework to mathematically model the Green House Gas (GHG)
emissions of any type of building, especially applicable for South Asian region. The …

Effect of environmental management practices and sustainability on some selected manufacturing firms in South East Nigeria

J Obamen, S Omonona, O Oni, OF Ohunyeye - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The manufacturing sector in South East Nigeria has many challenges concerning the
incorporation of sustainability into the corporate strategies and operations of the industry …

A review of building life cycle assessment software tools: Challenges and future directions

D Dharmarathna, V Bunster… - IOP Conference Series …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Buildings contribute close to 40% of the global annual energy-related greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions. To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, all emissions need to halve …

[PDF][PDF] Environmental impact analysis of five family houses in Eastern Slovakia through a life cycle assessment

A Moňoková, S Vilčeková - Selected Scientific Papers-Journal of Civil …, 2019 - sciendo.com
This study performs a life cycle assessment (LCA) of five new family houses in Eastern
Slovakia to compare them in terms of the materials and technologies used. The main goal of …

Analysis of alternative building envelope solutions to improve energy efficiency

N Ahmed Mohamed, KM El-Dash… - … on Smart Cities 4.0, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Improving the building envelope can play a central role in energy efficiency (EE) and
embodied carbon (EC) emissions reduction during the building life cycle. Such a kind of …