Latest developments on TES and CSP technologies–Energy and environmental issues, applications and research trends

O Achkari, A El Fadar - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The concentrating solar power (CSP) technology is promising especially for countries
having an abundance of solar resources in order to secure their energy supply, reduce their …

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 …

Whole‐life embodied carbon in multistory buildings: Steel, concrete and timber structures

J Hart, B D'Amico, F Pomponi - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Buildings and the construction industry are top contributors to climate change, and structures
account for the largest share of the upfront greenhouse gas emissions. While a body of …

Sustainable supply chain management and the transition towards a circular economy: Evidence and some applications

A Genovese, AA Acquaye, A Figueroa, SCL Koh - Omega, 2017 - Elsevier
In the last decades, green and sustainable supply chain management practices have been
developed, trying to integrate environmental concerns into organisations by reducing …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental impacts of food waste: Learnings and challenges from a case study on UK

D Tonini, PF Albizzati, TF Astrup - Waste Management, 2018 - Elsevier
Food waste, particularly when avoidable, incurs loss of resources and considerable
environmental impacts due to the multiple processes involved in the life cycle. This study …

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) …

Hybrid life cycle inventory methods–A review

RH Crawford, PA Bontinck, A Stephan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
A variety of methods can be used to compile a life cycle inventory (LCI) as part of a life cycle
assessment (LCA) study. Hybrid LCI methods attempt to address the limitations inherent in …

Embodied energy in residential buildings-towards the nearly zero energy building: A literature review

P Chastas, T Theodosiou, D Bikas - Building and environment, 2016 - Elsevier
This literature review addresses the Life Cycle Energy Analysis (LCEA) of residential
buildings. As the fluctuation in the choice of functional units, boundaries of the system, life …

Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies

EG Hertwich, T Gibon, EA Bouman, A Arvesen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
Decarbonization of electricity generation can support climate-change mitigation and
presents an opportunity to address pollution resulting from fossil-fuel combustion. Generally …

Evaluating the environmental impacts of dietary recommendations

P Behrens, JC Kiefte-de Jong, T Bosker… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - pnas.org
Dietary choices drive both health and environmental outcomes. Information on diets come
from many sources, with nationally recommended diets (NRDs) by governmental or similar …