Review of Life-Cycle Assessment Applications in Building Construction

Singh, A. J.; Berghorn, George H.; Joshi, Satish; Syal, Matt

doi:10.1061/(asce)ae.1943-5568.0000026

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“…Due to the increasing awareness on environmental issues and pressure from various government bodies and environmental activists, many attempts have been made to assess building carbon emissions and to reduce building energy consumption [4]. However, most prior research into building carbon emissions focused on the situations at the national level or provincial level whereas research at the city level was often neglected due to the limited data samples.…”

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Life Cycle Building Carbon Emissions Assessment and Driving Factors Decomposition Analysis Based on LMDI—A Case Study of Wuhan City in China

Gong

Song

2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:Carbon emissions calculation at the sub-provincial level has issues in limited data and non-unified measurements. This paper calculated the life cycle energy consumption and carbon emissions of the building industry in Wuhan, China. The findings showed that the proportion of carbon emissions in the construction operation phase was the largest, followed by the carbon emissions of the indirect energy consumption and the construction material preparation phase. With the purpose of analyzing the contributors of the construction carbon emissions, this paper conducted decomposition analysis using Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI). The results indicated that the increasing buidling area was the major driver of energy consumption and carbon emissions increase, followed by the behavior factor. Population growth and urbanization, to some extent, increased the carbon emissions as well. On the contrary, energy efficiency was the main inhibitory factor for reducing the carbon emissions. Policy implications in terms of low-carbon construction development were highlighted.

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Life Cycle Building Carbon Emissions Assessment and Driving Factors Decomposition Analysis Based on LMDI—A Case Study of Wuhan City in China

Gong

Song

2015

Sustainability

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“…For example, the ECOINVENT database (the world's leading database with consistent and transparent, up-to-date, Life Cycle Inventory data) is routinely and confidently used by practitioners to "generically" evaluate the whole life environmental impacts of products, processes, and services (e.g. Dale et al, 2011;Singh et al, 2011). The QUIESST's decision support data base is somewhat similar in that utility.…”

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Assessment and relative sustainability of common types of roadside noise barriers

Oltean‐Dumbrava

Miah

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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There is increasing legislative and public pressure for the design and build of road infrastructure schemes to achieve better sustainability performance. Roadside noise barriers (RNBs) form a major part of the growing road infrastructure system in mitigating undesirable road noise to impacted communities. However, the relative sustainability of common RNBs is little understood in the research and industry literature. This makes it difficult for stakeholders to make informed decisions with regards to the sustainable design and procurement of RNBs. This paper presents nowel research carried out to assess and rank the relative sustainability of 13 RNB types using three multi criteria analysis (MCA) techniques, i.e. Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), Preference Ranking Organisation MeTHod for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE), and Elimination et Choice Translating Reality (ELECTRE III). The paper concludes that the presented sustainability rankings of the main RNB types from least sustainable to most sustainable will support the relevant stakeholders, involved in the planning, design, and procurement stages, to evaluate the sustainability of RNB options as either part of a large highways scheme or standalone project. The presented results will save significant analysis time and costs in cases whereby it is unfeasible to conduct MCAs. The presented sustainability asssessment methodology may also provide the basis for an industry sustainability certification sceheme and in turn support advancing the sustainability transport agenda.

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“…Roodman et al [2] suggested that buildings are responsible for world's fresh water withdrawals, wood harvest and material and energy flow that consist of 17%, 25%, and 40%, respectively. Because of the significant effect, the industry gives to the environment, numerous studies have been conducted to reduce the energy consumption and its environmental impact [3].…”

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Environmental Impact Analysis on Residential Building in Malaysia Using Life Cycle Assessment

2017

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Abstract:The building industry has a significant impact on the environment due to massive natural resources and energy it uses throughout its life cycle. This study presents a life cycle assessment of a semi-detached residential building in Malaysia as a case study and assesses the environmental impact under cradle-to-grave which consists of pre-use, construction, use, and end-of-life phases by using Centre of Environmental Science of Leiden University (CML) 2001. Four impact categories were evaluated, namely, acidification, eutrophication, global warming potential (GWP), and ozone layer depletion (ODP). The building operation under use phase contributed the highest global warming potential and acidification with 2.41 × 10 3 kg CO 2 eq and 1.10 × 10 1 kg SO 2 eq, respectively. In the pre-use phase, concrete in the substructure has the most significant overall impact with cement as the primary raw material. The results showed that the residential building in Malaysia has a fairly high impact in GWP but lower in acidification and ODP compared to other studies.

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Review of Life-Cycle Assessment Applications in Building Construction

Cited by 121 publications

References 45 publications

Life Cycle Building Carbon Emissions Assessment and Driving Factors Decomposition Analysis Based on LMDI—A Case Study of Wuhan City in China

Life Cycle Building Carbon Emissions Assessment and Driving Factors Decomposition Analysis Based on LMDI—A Case Study of Wuhan City in China

Assessment and relative sustainability of common types of roadside noise barriers

Environmental Impact Analysis on Residential Building in Malaysia Using Life Cycle Assessment

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