Potential-analysis of grey energy limits for residential buildings in Germany

A holistic review of research on carbon emissions of green building construction industry

“…As can be seen from Table IV, the main efforts of scholars are used to measure the performance of carbon emissions (35.4 percent), relatively few studies focus on management practice (17.7 percent), properties of material (15.1 percent), and decarbonizing design, model and strategies (19.8 percent), while research on building carbon emissions reduction prospect (12 percent) is receiving the least attention. Through the systematic analysis of key topics, based on the limitations of current research, future research directions can be further derived, what has been done and what remains to be done in the GB-CO 2 domain, as presented in Figure 5: • Building carbon emissions reduction prospect: green progress and prospect (Chua and Oh, 2011;He et al, 2018;Tae and Shin, 2009;Zhang et al, 2011), green potential (Brinks, 2016;Capeluto and Ben-Avraham, 2016;Li, Yang, He and Zhao, 2014;Newton and Tucker, 2011), and conceptual architecture (Attia, 2016;Brambilla et al, 2018).…”

“…For ordinary family homes in Germany, using wooden structures (e.g. beam ceiling) alone will save 60-95 percent carbon saving potential without additional cost (Brinks, 2016). By carefully selecting low-carbon material during the design phase, it can effectively reduce the entire life cycle carbon emissions by up to 30 percent (Chen and Thomas Ng, 2016).…”