Quantification process of carbon emissions in the construction industry

KE Lai, NA Rahiman, N Othman, KN Ali, YW Lim… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change has raised awareness on the need to achieve net-zero carbon emissions
and improve the sustainability of buildings. To reduce the complexity of quantifying carbon …

Life cycle energy performances and environmental impacts of a prefabricated building module

G Tumminia, F Guarino, S Longo, M Ferraro… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The paper explores the energy performances and environmental impacts of a prefabricated
building module located in Messina (Sicily, Italy) through an approach that combines both …

Prefabricated versus conventional construction: Comparing life-cycle impacts of alternative structural materials

V Tavares, N Soares, N Raposo, P Marques… - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Prefabrication can have advantages in terms of materials and time efficiency, but the overall
environmental and cost trade‐offs between the two construction methods are unclear and …

A comparative life cycle assessment of prefabricated and traditional construction–A case of a develo** country

J Jayawardana, M Sandanayake, J Jayasinghe… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Prefabricated construction has increasingly captivated the attention of the global
construction sector due to factors such as reduced overall construction times and improved …

Embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions analysis of a prefabricated modular house: The “Moby” case study

V Tavares, N Lacerda, F Freire - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Buildings are big consumers of energy and materials, and important producers of waste and
emissions. Prefabrication presents an opportunity to reduce impacts in the building sector; …

What is the potential for prefabricated buildings to decrease costs and contribute to meeting EU environmental targets?

V Tavares, J Gregory, R Kirchain, F Freire - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Union (EU-27) targets buildings' decarbonization by 2050, and
prefabrication presents an opportunity to reduce buildings and construction sector impacts …

Container farms: Energy modeling considering crop growth and energy-saving potential in different climates

R Song, D Liu, Y Pan, Y Cheng, C Meng - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Container farms (CFs), integrating plant factories into mobile prefabricated buildings, are
emerging as a novel decentralized food production system to fortify sustainable urban …

Life cycle assessment and life cycle costing of container-based single-family housing in Canada: A case study

C Dara, C Hachem-Vermette, G Assefa - Building and Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
This research presents an early-design analysis of single-family housing located in Calgary,
Canada; and combines energy analysis, life cycle assessment (LCA), and life-cycle costing …

How different tools contribute to climate change mitigation in a circular building environment?—a Systematic Literature Review

LR Caldas, MV Silva, VP Silva, MTM Carvalho… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The circular economy (CE) has become a trend because concern has arisen regarding the
end of life of several products and the reduction of CO2 emissions in many processes. Since …

Identification of factors and decision analysis of the level of modularization in building construction

P Sharafi, M Rashidi, B Samali, H Ronagh… - Journal of …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
In the majority of ordinary housing development projects, instead of using complex
multicriteria decision-making systems, companies still rely on expert knowledge, checklists …