To foster sustainable development, the environmental impacts of the construction sector
need to be reduced substantially. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the established …

Building information modeling (BIM) helps simplify data acquisition and reduce labor-
intensive processes in the life cycle assessment (LCA) of buildings. However, there is a lack …

Ancient Roman concretes have survived millennia, but mechanistic insights into their
durability remain an enigma. Here, we use a multiscale correlative elemental and chemical …

Buildings are responsible for many environmental issues during construction. Although
many studies have evaluated buildings' life cycle embodied environmental impacts (LCEEI) …

Digital tools based on Building Information Modelling (BIM) provide the potential to facilitate
environmental performance assessments of buildings. Various tools that use a BIM model …

There is increasing interest in the study of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of buildings, which
entails an estimate of the potential environmental impacts and resource use of buildings …

Buildings contribute a significant portion of global greenhouse gas emissions and have the
potential for large-scale impact reductions. Reducing the whole-life impacts of buildings is …

The vast majority of scientists and policy makers agree that environmental impacts of
buildings need to be reduced significantly, and that Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a …

The construction sector is a major producer of greenhouse gas and waste. Several studies
reveal the close relationship between the design phase and the reduction of environmental …

The paper proposes a multi-objective optimization approach to address the energy design of
the building envelope. A genetic algorithm (GA) is implemented by means of the coupling …