Moving towards an Egyptian national life cycle inventory database

Ali, Ahmed AbdelMonteleb M.; Negm, Abdelazim; Bady, Mahmoud; Ibrahim, Mona G.

doi:10.1007/s11367-014-0760-z

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“…Secondly, life cycle inventory (LCI) is region-related because the different building considerations differ from one location to another, so providing a transparent, consistent, reachable, and reliable national LCI database for Egypt has various benefits for industry and other institutional users [17]. Nowadays, the Egyptian National LCI (ENLCI) has started to be developed [17][18][19] for the Egyptian cement and brick industries but it has not been finished yet, which delayed conducting a complete LCA for a case study in Egypt.…”

Section: Different Studies On Lca Of Different Building Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nowadays, the Egyptian National LCI (ENLCI) has started to be developed [17][18][19] for the Egyptian cement and brick industries but it has not been finished yet, which delayed conducting a complete LCA for a case study in Egypt. Consequently, this paper reviews and analyzes the steel attributes towards sustainability and performs a database for the Egyptian steel industry.…”

Section: Different Studies On Lca Of Different Building Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The social performance category of accessibility due to the longer spans that eliminate intermediate columns creating open floor areas ideal for various needs [30]. They can achieve both building functional demands and uniqueness of their client' needs [17,19].…”

Section: Design Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several authors [2,10,17,[21][22][23] have discussed off-site construction benefits which are not only minimizing site activity but also are providing efficient, safe, high quality and fast construction [36], in addition to economical handling and transportations [37].…”

Section: Construction Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To continue the ENLCI database, in which is initiated and developed by Ali et al [17][18][19] for the Egyptian cement and brick industries, the ENLCI should be continued for the Egyptian steel industry from several Egyptian steel plants. The designed capacity of these plants is determined (as listed in Table 2).…”

Section: Theory/calculationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Steel as a sustainable choice towards the green building concept

Taha¹,

Ibrahim²,

Ali³

2016

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Due to the significant global environmental impacts of building construction through water consumption, energy use, gas emission and solid waste, a building's sustainability becomes the fourth consideration after cost, time and quality for the success of its design and construction. The green building standards state that a building is considered environmentally green whenever its structure and expected use simultaneously match the prescribed environmental standards over the span of its life-cycle. Therefore, the life cycle assessment of different buildings was studied to investigate building sustainability and how to achieve the criteria for green buildings. It was shown that a green building does not have a particular construction method, but it is a set of techniques, materials, and technologies suitably integrated together to improve the environmental performance of the building. Thus, this research will focus on steel as the main construction material which can be an appropriate choice that represents interesting solutions to fulfill the green building standards. The characteristics of durability, adaptability and recyclability of steel structures can definitely be highlighted at construction sustainability principles. Otherwise, the Egyptian steel industry has been performing a great effort to accomplish the optimum environmental performance, provide a high structural performance and quality, and satisfy clients' requirements for sustainability. Data from a private steel plant in Egypt has been compiled as a step to complete the Egyptian life cycle inventory so that the steel industry could be environmentally assessed.

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Section: Different Studies On Lca Of Different Building Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Different Studies On Lca Of Different Building Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Design Phasementioning

confidence: 99%