Buildings as a global carbon sink

G Churkina, A Organschi, CPO Reyer, A Ruff… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The anticipated growth and urbanization of the global population over the next several
decades will create a vast demand for the construction of new housing, commercial …

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 …

EUBUCCO v0. 1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings

N Milojevic-Dupont, F Wagner, F Nachtigall, J Hu… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Building stock management is becoming a global societal and political issue, inter alia
because of growing sustainability concerns. Comprehensive and openly accessible building …

A life cycle thinking framework to mitigate the environmental impact of building materials

B Huang, X Gao, X Xu, J Song, Y Geng, J Sarkis… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Urbanization and population growth have contributed to a tripling of building material
consumption from 2000 to 2017. Building materials have a range of environmental impacts …

Modelling global material stocks and flows for residential and service sector buildings towards 2050

S Deetman, S Marinova, E van der Voet… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Residential buildings and service sector buildings have an important contribution to climate
change, directly via energy use in these buildings and indirectly through construction …

Structural material demand and associated embodied carbon emissions of the United States building stock: 2020–2100

JH Arehart, F Pomponi, B D'Amico… - Resources, Conservation …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study uses material flow analysis to estimate the material stocks and flows and
associated upfront embodied carbon emissions for gravity building structural systems in the …

Global construction materials database and stock analysis of residential buildings between 1970-2050

S Marinova, S Deetman, E van der Voet… - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Huge material stocks are embedded in the residential built environment. These materials
have the potential to be a source of secondary materials, an important consideration for the …

Develo** an urban resource cadaster for circular economy: A case of Odense, Denmark

M Lanau, G Liu - Environmental science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The significant amount of secondary materials stocked in products, buildings, and
infrastructures has directed increasing attention to urban mining and circular economy …

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 …

Develo** Regenerate: A circular economy engagement tool for the assessment of new and existing buildings

C Gillott, W Mihkelson, M Lanau… - Journal of Industrial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The transition toward a circular economy (CE) is key in decarbonizing the built environment.
Despite this, knowledge of—and engagement with—CE philosophies remains limited within …