1 3 Life cycle assessment (LCA) of sustainable building materials: an overview Grace K. C. Ding, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Abstract: The construction industry is one of the largest exploiters of both renewable and ...

98 Key words: life cycle assessment, cradle-to-gate, agricultural production systems, environmental impacts, food safety, functional units, agricultural intensity LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ...

Introduction to LCA of Buildings 4 A life cycle assessment of a building normally involves evaluating its whole life cycle . This means including all of the stages in the assessment – raw material supply, manufacture of construction ...

1 LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT FOR EVALUATING GREEN PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS Amy E. Landis*, Melissa M. Bilec*, Neethi Rajagopalan† Assistant Professor*, PhD Candidate†, Department of Civil and Environmental ...

in Minneapolis, and wood-frame and concrete-frame homes in Atlanta (the framing types most common in each city).5 In both cases, LCA showed that the wood-frame homes performed substantially better than their non-wood6 ...

Request PDF on ResearchGate | Environmental impact and life cycle assessment (LCA) of traditional and ‘green’ concretes: Literature review and theoretical calculations | With the current focus on sustainability, it is necessary to ...

Blane Grann Scientist, Sustainability Group Advanced Building Systems FPInnovations Exploring the GHG mitigation opportunity from multistory wood buildings Whole building life cycle assessment (LCA) November 22, 2016 Public ...

Methods, Impacts, and Opportunities in the Concrete Building Life Cycle August 2011 Concrete Sustainability Hub Page ii Massachusetts Institute of Technology EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Life cycle assessment (LCA) offers a ...

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF A HEMP CONCRETE WALL: IMPACT OF THICKNESS AND COATING. Sylvie PRETOT, Florence COLLET*, Charles GARNIER Université Européenne de Bretagne - Laboratoire de Génie Civil et ...

Article Green Template for Life Cycle Assessment of Buildings Based on Building Information Modeling: Focus on Embodied Environmental Impact Sungwoo Lee 1, Sungho Tae 2,*, Seungjun Roh 1 and Taehyung Kim 1 Received: 14 ...

PDF | Green concrete is a concrete that supports the content of CO2 emissions reductions by using waste industries as cement replacement. The waste industries that commonly can be used in green concrete mixture design are fly ...

ii Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Efficiency of Concrete Materials Karina E. Seto Master of Applied Science Civil Engineering University of Toronto 2015 Abstract Many materials have been proposed as ‘green’ alternatives ...

3 Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Pavements: Impacts and Opportunities by Alex Loijos Submitted to the Engineering Systems Division on May 6, 2011 in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of ...

What is Green Concrete Life-Cycle Assessment (GreenConcrete LCA) Web Tool? The GreenConcrete LCA Web version is based on an MS-Excel tool developed to analyze environmental impacts of production of concrete and its ...

Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Buildings By Lionel Lemay, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, Sr. VP, Sustainable Development, NRMCA W Figure 1. Life cycle stages, inputs and outputs for life cycle assessment (adapted from EPA). ...

Life Cycle Assessment and Green Building In Accordance with Draft ANSI LCA Metric and Protocol Standard 2010 Green California Summit March 15, 2010 ... Evolution of Green Building: LEED USGBC LEED Multi‐criteria ...

Van den Heede, Philip, and Nele De Belie. 2017. “Sustainability Assessment of Potentially ‘Green’ Concrete Types Using Life Cycle Assessment.” In Sustainable and Nonconventional Construction Materials Using Inorganic Bonded ...

Green concrete is a concrete that supports the content of CO2 emissions reductions by using waste industries as cement replacement. The waste industries that commonly can be used in green concrete mixture design are fly ash ...

A method is presented for systematically comparing the environmental impacts of different structural designs. While green (environmentally less invasive) design ... Title: Reliability-Based Life Cycle Assessment of Green Concrete ...

BYGGNADSMATERIAL KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLAN 100 44 STOCKHOLM; TRITA-BYMA 2001:3 ISSN 0349-5752 ISBN 91-7283-098-0 Life Cycle Assessment for Building Products-The significance of the usage phase

Adress Gerdagatan 13, 223 62 Lund Telefon 046 -222 00 00 (vxl) Telefax 046-222 86 44 Internet www.miljo.lth.se Department of Technology and Society Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Jeannette Sjunnesson Master thesis

This paper aims to present a literature review of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) applied to green concretes. It proposes to study the different green concretes studied in the world by the means of LCA. Different studies were researched in ...

What is Green Concrete.pdf - Download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online. it sgive the information about green concrete ... Point of View These columns of ICJ offer an opportunity to the engineering fraternity to express ...

Integrated Environmental Management Information Series9 Life Cycle Assessment Private Bag X447, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa, www.deat.gov.za Department of ... Other topics in the series of overview information documents on the ...

In this study, environmental performance indicator is proposed for comprehensively evaluating the environmental burdens of concrete. Also an environmental life ... Title: Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Containing ...

WHAT IS A “GREEN” BUILDING ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT ASSESSMENT TOOLS? Marita Wallhagen, PhD student, Architect SAR/MSA1 Mauritz Glaumann, Professor, Architect SAR/MSA1 Ulla Westerberg, Ph D, Architect ...

Toward green concrete for better sustainable environment Bambang Suhendro * Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Abstract Eight to 10 percent of the world's total 2 ...

1 RELIABILITY-BASED LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF GREEN 2 CONCRETE STRUCTURES 3 Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl, Joshua W. Christiansen, and Kelli Walters 4 …

Green Concrete – a life cycle approach Featured in the proceedings of "Challenges of Concrete Construction, September 2002, University of Dundee ABSTRACT. Cement and concrete have an important role to play in enabling ...

REPORT Life cycle assessment of railways and rail transports - Application in environmental product declarations (EPDs) for the Bothnia Line The report approved: 2010-10-01 Lars-Gunnar Lindfors Research director Håkan Stripple ...

Concrete!SustainabilityHub!! ! ! Massachusetts!Institute!of!Technology! ! Life Cycle Assessment for Residential Buildings: A Literature Review and Gap Analysis March 12, 2013 Randa Ghattas Jeremy Gregory Elsa Olivetti Suzanne ...

“Green” Concrete Mixtures on Building Construction Submitted By ASCC Education, Research & Development Foundation December 2013 Page | 1 Project Participants Principal Investigator ...

9 - Sustainability assessment of potentially ‘green’ concrete types using life cycle assessment Author links open overlay panel Philip Van den Heede 1 2 Nele De Belie 1 Show more https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102001-2 ...

Environmental Impact of Product Selection SuStainability and life cycle analySiS for Residential Buildings LCA Tools Until recently, the only software tools available for sustainable design were energy performance simulators. A rising ...

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT AND GREEN DESIGN: AN ASSESSMENT OF GREEN DESIGN IN A CASE STUDY OF PLASTICS by Michaelangelo Tabone Submitted to the Faculty of The Swanson School of Engineering in partial ...