Being one of the primary contributors to global GHG emissions, the construction industry has been the focus of many recent studies. The process of manufacturing and transporting of building materials, and installing and constructing of buildings consumes great energy and emits a large quantity of greenhouse gas. This study identifies the sources of GHG emissions during building construction phase and estimates the GHG emissions from those sources for a case building in Bangladesh, following the process-based methodology. The results for the case building show that about 98.38% of total emissions are due to the manufacture and transportation of building materials, 1.31% is due to energy consumption during the construction period and only 0.31% are due to waste disposals, while concrete and brickworks are the most contributing materials to the GHG emissions, about 35.22% and 48.67% respectively. This study has been conducted in Bangladesh as the concern for GHG emissions in building construction is not satisfactory here yet. It also proposes a set of unique strategies, such as, using recycled building materials, especially recycled steel, as well as, transporting building materials by sea, re-using wooden waste materials and using hardwood plywood in place of non-load bearing brick walls and demonstrates the reduction of GHG emission numerically by applying these strategies, which are the originalities of this study.
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