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Comparison of environmental impacts of building structures with in situ cast floors and with precast concrete floors
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In this paper, the environmental impacts of two types of slab systems are studied and the assessment shows that the environmental impact of a building structure with precast concrete floors is 12.2% lower than that with in situ cast floors for the defined functional unit.About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2009-04-01. It has received 99 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Precast concrete & Slab.read more
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Environmental impact and life cycle assessment (LCA) of traditional and ‘green’ concretes: Literature review and theoretical calculations
P. Van den Heede,N. De Belie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the available literature on every step in the LCA of concrete and found that the adopted functional unit for which the environmental impact is calculated, influences the outcome significantly.
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Comparative environmental assessment of natural and recycled aggregate concrete.
TL;DR: It is concluded that utilization of RAC for low-to-middle strength structural concrete and non-aggressive exposure conditions is technically feasible and the environmental impacts are slightly larger for RAC than for NAC but the total environmental impacts depend on the natural and recycled aggregates transport distances and on transport types.
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The changing role of life cycle phases, subsystems and materials in the LCA of low energy buildings
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been conducted on a low energy family house recently built in Northern Italy, which was claimed to be sustainable on the basis of its outstanding energy saving performances, an ex post LCA was set up to understand whether, and to what extent, the positive judgement could be confirmed in a life cycle perspective.
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Critical review of the research on the management of prefabricated construction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the latest research trend in this discipline by analyzing published construction management research in 10 leading journals during the period from 2000 to 2013 in terms of the annual number of MPC papers, contributions of institutions, adopted data collection and processing methods, and research interest.
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A review of life cycle assessment method for building industry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the LCA methods and to distinguish phases and materials that affect significantly to environment, and the findings show the methods are based on ISO 14040 series with variance to suit different scopes, aims and limitations.
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A Systematic Approach to Environmental Priority Strategies in Product Development (EPS) Version 2000-General System Characteristics
TL;DR: The EPS default method has been developed within CPM (Centre for the environmental assessment of Products and Material systems) a joint research environment at Chalmers University of Technology with participation from industry and the ISO standard language is adopted.
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Life cycle analysis model for New Zealand houses
Nalanie Mithraratne,Brenda Vale +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed life cycle analysis of an individual house in New Zealand based on the embodied and operating energy requirements and life cycle cost over the useful life of the building is presented.
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Environmental assessment of building properties—Where natural and social sciences meet: The case of EcoEffect
Getachew Assefa,Mauritz Glaumann,Tove Malmqvist,Beatrice Kindembe,M. Hult,U. Myhr,Ola Eriksson +6 more
TL;DR: The EcoEffect method of assessing external and internal impacts of building properties is briefly described in this article, where the external impacts of manufacturing and transport of the building materials, the gener...
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Sustainable design of supporting structures: Optimal structural spans and component combinations for effective improvement of environmental performance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors determine the improvement potential of the supporting structure of buildings and explore other sustainable solutions effectively enhancing environmental performance for the same office layout, various combinations of structural components at different spans were studied.
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