New residential construction building and composite post and beam structure toward global warming mitigation

Abstract

The construction industry has become one of the major sources of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, low carbon buildings have been assigned for reduction of human impact on the environment. The aim of this research is to decrease the CO2 effect from the building sector by eventually proposing a new structure for Malaysian construction with regard to the needs of this industry. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been performed to analyze the CO2 emission for the Malaysian residential single family house. Seven different materials or structures have been assessed and the result shows that timber prefabricated post and beam is the best choice due to releasing less CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. However, timber has become almost forgotten as building material for house builders in Malaysia in the last four decades. The alternative building scheme has been made by reinforced steel plate into wooden beam and column and timber wall (S8) to improve the building structure deficiency and load bearing while releasing less CO2 emissions in comparison to other buildings. New structure has been designed by steel plate sandwiched between wood members and held together with bolts in beam and post toward decreasing the percentage of improper design and to improve accuracy in the execution of timber structure. Thus, new scheme (S8) could be advised to house maker and government as a new policy to promote the sustainability in construction sector. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 37: 1394–1402, 2018

Balancing of life cycle carbon and cost appraisal on alternative wall and roof design verification for residential building

“…The reason why an all timber house has not been chosen for assessment is described in a Bin Marsono and Balasbaneh (2015) study about the low interest in Malaysian stockholder timber buildings because of structural defects. That is why instead of pure timber structure building, two new building structures (W1 and W5) has been verified in this study (Balasbaneh and Bin Marsono, 2017c). Whenever multiply design options are available, it is vital to find out which combination model is optimum design.…”

Life Cycle Environmental Sustainability and Energy Assessment of Timber Wall Construction: A Comprehensive Overview

“…The construction of buildings has an enormous environmental effect and, significantly, buildings carry a substantial proportion of carbon dioxide emissions [1][2][3][4]. The production, construction, use, and demolition of building materials significantly contributes to the worldwide usage of resources and waste [5][6][7][8]. Around 40% of all raw resources are used in construction and demolition worldwide [9][10][11].…”

“…Around 40% of all raw resources are used in construction and demolition worldwide [9][10][11]. Furthermore, construction operations require 32% of global energy use, and are responsible for one third of greenhouse gas emissions globally [5,10,[12][13][14][15][16]. Therefore, 25% of landfill wastes, 10% of airborne particulates, and 35% of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are produced by buildings [8].…”

“…The most common modification is to reduce the number of stages involved in the life cycle process by ignoring the stages which have a smaller contribution to the total environmental impacts [3,40,41]. For example, repair and maintenance are less frequently considered in the LCA of building construction [4,5,32]. Similarly, many earlier studies were simplified LCAs focusing on only a few environmental or energy impacts for the construction industry.…”

Multi-criteria decision analysis of timber–concrete composite floor systems in multi-storey wooden buildings

“…Floor systems in multi-storey wooden buildings are now undergoing a revival in two different areas (Moya et al, 2017). On the one hand, the development of new Engineered Wood Products and, on the other, architectural and design innovation with improved overall sustainability (Russell-Smith et al, 2015) using both composite building materials and systems (Movaffaghi, Pyykkö, and Yitmen 2020) and low carbon footprint materials (Woodard and Milner 2016;Stocchero et al 2017;Balasbaneh and Bin Marsono 2018;Balasbaneh, Marsono, and Khaleghi 2018).…”