Decarbonization is essential for decelerating climate change and alleviating its associated
impacts. Green roofs (GR) are expected to be a solution to the limited urban spaces for …

Accounting for one third of global energy-related carbon emissions, the construction and
operation of buildings are crucial for mitigating climate change. Decarbonization potentials …

There is a limited comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of adopted carbon mitigation
strategies for buildings over their life cycle, that are concerned with temporal perspectives of …

Value Engineering (VE) is a process where building materials, systems or design strategies
are substituted to reduce capital costs without negatively impacting functionality. This …

Through a systematic study, this paper conducted a life cycle assessment (LCA) consisting
of evaluation of both embodied and operational emissions of different building retrofitting …

Global demand for housing and the climate crisis have created a seemingly impossible
choice between the need to build more and the need to emit less from construction …

Achieving net zero operational and embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the built
environment is recognised in Australia and globally as a key strategy to address climate …

The construction of new domestic properties contributes 2% of UK territorial greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions. The UK government aims to increase construction of new homes in …

Sustainability indicators (SIs) are important instruments to quantify, analyse, and
communicate complex sustainability information, with a history of application in energy …

In response to establishing net-zero carbon emissions buildings and the need to make
transparent the methods used for calculating the embodied CO2e emissions of these …