A Research About The Effect of Building Materials on Indoor Air Quality

Zorlu, Kübra; Karadayi, Tülay Tikansak

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“…The environmental impacts of building materials referred to above cause variable effects on human health, and the tolerance levels of different individuals towards the same substance also vary. There are studies in the literature on the details of the human health impact caused by building materials [28][29][30][31]. The necessity of declaring the greenhouse gas emission information of building materials within the scope of the EU Green Deal in the near future has formed the starting point of this study.…”

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Environmental Sustainability of Building Materials in Turkey: Reference Information Recommendations for European Green Deal Declarations

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Aytekin,

Kuşan

et al. 2024

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The European Green Deal is the policy established by the EU against global environmental problems. However, it is closely concerned with the countries carrying import and export activities with the EU. Because it is planned to impose an obligation to declare greenhouse gas emission inventories of products imported into the EU, the EU will soon begin to assess the CBAM on imports from carbon-intensive industries. This regulation is expected to affect Turkey-EU trade relations. One of the industries that Turkey has export relations with the EU is the building materials industry. For this reason, it will have had necessary to provide sustainability criteria for the export of building materials. However, there is no database in Turkey where the inventory data of building materials is declared. In Turkey, within the scope of EU Green Deal action plans, it is aimed to create different structures for environmental information of building materials in the medium and long term. In light of such information, within the scope of this study it is aimed to create reference information for building material databases to be developed in Turkey. The study recommends weight and normalization reference values following the life cycle assessment methodology defined by ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 international standards. Twelve environmental impact categories accepted in the literature, including greenhouse gas emissions, have been considered as the environmental impacts of building materials. Semi-structured interviews were held with twenty-one industry stakeholders in Tur-key to determine the weight reference values. The results obtained from the semi-structured interviews were combined using the AHP method. An extensive research study was conducted on Turkey’s national inventory data to determine normalization reference values. Environmental impact calculations were carried out for different building materials in a case study to present the importance of regional adaptation of the determined reference values. The recommended reference information may be used in greenhouse gas emission declarations under the EU Green Deal and other potential environmental impact declarations from building materials.

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