[HTML][HTML] Life-cycle carbon emissions (LCCE) of buildings: implications, calculations, and reductions

Z Huang, H Zhou, Z Miao, H Tang, B Lin, W Zhuang - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The life-cycle assessment method, which originates from general products and services, has
gradually come to be applied to investigations of the life-cycle carbon emissions (LCCE) of …

New advancements, challenges and opportunities of multi-storey modular buildings–A state-of-the-art review

W Ferdous, Y Bai, TD Ngo, A Manalo, P Mendis - Engineering structures, 2019 - Elsevier
Modular construction offers faster and safer manufacturing, better predictability to completion
time, superior quality, less workers on site, less resource wastage, and a more …

The challenges confronting the growth of sustainable prefabricated building construction in Australia: Construction industry views

S Navaratnam, A Satheeskumar, G Zhang… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
The construction industry has played a huge role in sustaining the economy of Australia
during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. However, construction activities tend to be limited …

Reducing embodied carbon in structural systems: A review of early-stage design strategies

D Fang, N Brown, C De Wolf, C Mueller - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The embodied carbon emissions of buildings are increasingly important to mitigate. Most of
these emissions come from structural systems. While many strategies have been identified …

Life cycle assessment of the building industry: An overview of two decades of research (1995–2018)

M Bahramian, K Yetilmezsoy - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
An overview of current status of the available literature on Life Cycle Energy, Life Cycle
Greenhouse gasses, and Conventional Life Cycle Assessment of commercial and …

Global review of circular economy and life cycle thinking in building Demolition Waste Management: A way ahead for India

N Sharma, PP Kalbar, M Salman - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Management of Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste from buildings has
become essential to ensure sustainable infrastructural growth across the globe. The major …

Investigating the embodied energy and carbon of buildings: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of life cycle assessments

R Minunno, T O'Grady, GM Morrison… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Life cycle assessment is a tool to quantify the environmental impact of products and has
been widely studied in the building context. This is an important context given the building …

Life cycle performance of modular buildings: A critical review

M Kamali, K Hewage - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Off-site construction has gained more attention from both academia and industry during the
last few years. Modular construction is one of the most efficient off-site construction methods …

Recent developments, future challenges and new research directions in LCA of buildings: A critical review

CK Anand, B Amor - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Considering the vast and rapidly growing area of buildings, LCA research is being led in
numerous different areas ranging from building materials and components level to whole …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) of building refurbishment: A literature review

A Vilches, A Garcia-Martinez, B Sanchez-Montañes - Energy and Buildings, 2017 - Elsevier
This review organises and summarises the recent contributions related to the environmental
evaluation of building refurbishment and renovation using the lifecycle assessment (LCA) …