The role of multi-story structural building systems on reducing embodied energy consumption and carbon emissions

Hassan, Susan Abed; Jassim, Jamal Abed al Wahid

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/518/2/022031

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“…Figure 1. Embodied energy [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] and embodied carbon [29,30,38] definitions/concepts in a life cycle stage frame.…”

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Embodied energy and embodied carbon of structural building materials: Worldwide progress and barriers through literature map analysis

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Energy and Buildings

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“…Figure 1. Embodied energy [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] and embodied carbon [29,30,38] definitions/concepts in a life cycle stage frame.…”

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Embodied energy and embodied carbon of structural building materials: Worldwide progress and barriers through literature map analysis

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Energy and Buildings

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“…The use of specific materials in building structures depends on the building type, construction regulations, local access and cost. The extensive literature indicates that reinforced concrete and steel-based building structures have the highest environmental impacts among traditional materials, while timber-based structures are widely characterised by low values of embodied GHG emissions [95][96][97][98][99].…”

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Life Cycle GHG Emissions of Residential Buildings in Humid Subtropical and Tropical Climates: Systematic Review and Analysis

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Improving the environmental life cycle performance of buildings by focusing on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along the building life cycle is considered a crucial step in achieving global climate targets. This paper provides a systematic review and analysis of 75 residential case studies in humid subtropical and tropical climates. The study investigates GHG emissions across the building life cycle, i.e., it analyses both embodied and operational GHG emissions. Furthermore, the influence of various parameters, such as building location, typology, construction materials and energy performance, as well as methodological aspects are investigated. Through comparative analysis, the study identifies promising design strategies for reducing life cycle-related GHG emissions of buildings operating in subtropical and tropical climate zones. The results show that life cycle GHG emissions in the analysed studies are mostly dominated by operational emissions and are the highest for energy-intensive multi-family buildings. Buildings following low or net-zero energy performance targets show potential reductions of 50–80% for total life cycle GHG emissions, compared to buildings with conventional energy performance. Implementation of on-site photovoltaic (PV) systems provides the highest reduction potential for both operational and total life cycle GHG emissions, with potential reductions of 92% to 100% and 48% to 66%, respectively. Strategies related to increased use of timber and other bio-based materials present the highest potential for reduction of embodied GHG emissions, with reductions of 9% to 73%.

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“…The designer should not compromise any of the above-mentioned criteria according to a formally or intuitively made multicriteria analysis. The literature [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] advises that an important criterion should be the limitation of the consumption of building materials, resulting, in particular, in the reduction of the embodied energy, regardless of the need to constantly search for low-energy technologies for the production of building materials [30][31][32][33].…”

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Geometric Aspects of Assessing the Amount of Material Consumption in the Construction of a Designed Single-Family House

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Banaszak

2020

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In this paper, we present a new approach for the analysis of the dependence of construction costs on the geometric shape of a building. Instead of difficult or even impossible-to-establish uniform prices and costs, we propose a cost analysis concerning the amount of materials needed for construction. We show that the basic parameters are the base area of the building (plan), assumed in the study as the building area, and the area of the external walls of the building. The amount of consumption of most materials is proportional to the base area and the area of the external walls. The materials required for construction consume large amounts of energy during their manufacture. Therefore, shape optimization is not only economically significant for the investor but is also important in terms of the energy consumption, i.e., embodied energy. We propose a set of indicators to help a designer optimize the shape of the building at the initial design stage.

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The role of multi-story structural building systems on reducing embodied energy consumption and carbon emissions

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Embodied energy and embodied carbon of structural building materials: Worldwide progress and barriers through literature map analysis

Embodied energy and embodied carbon of structural building materials: Worldwide progress and barriers through literature map analysis

Life Cycle GHG Emissions of Residential Buildings in Humid Subtropical and Tropical Climates: Systematic Review and Analysis

Geometric Aspects of Assessing the Amount of Material Consumption in the Construction of a Designed Single-Family House

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