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Improving the sustainability performance of Western Australian house construction: A life cycle management approach
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In this article, the authors present a list of publications and a table of abbreviations for each of them, together with a Table of Table of Abbreviated Terms.Abstract:
....................................................................................................................... v List of publications .................................................................................................... viii List of Abbreviations.................................................................................................... x Table ofread more
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Conceptualising sustainability assessment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare TBL approaches and principles-based approaches to developing such sustainability criteria, concluding that the latter are more appropriate, since they avoid many of the inherent limitations of the triple-bottom-line as a conception of sustainability.
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Development of triple bottom line indicators for life cycle sustainability assessment of residential bulidings.
TL;DR: The LCSA framework using these scientifically valid KPIs would assist stakeholders to assess the sustainability performance of residential buildings and to identify the hotspots for proposing well-informed industry strategies in Western Australia.
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Impact of Service Life on the Environmental Performance of Buildings
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a relationship between the service life of a building and building components, and their impact on environmental performance, and showed that the environmental performance of buildings is affected by the service-life of the building and the replacement intervals of building components.
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Carbon footprint and embodied energy assessment of roof-covering materials
TL;DR: In this paper, a life cycle assessment has been carried out, within a West Australian context, to compare impacts for the roof specification options of: clay tile, concrete tile, and sheet metal.
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Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment.
Göran Finnveden,Michael Zwicky Hauschild,Tomas Ekvall,Jeroen B. Guinée,Reinout Heijungs,Stefanie Hellweg,Annette Koehler,David Pennington,Sangwon Suh +8 more
TL;DR: A review of recent developments of LCA methods, focusing on some areas where there has been an intense methodological development during the last years, and some of the emerging issues.
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Life cycle assessment: Part 1: Framework, goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, and applications
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TL;DR: The LCA framework and procedure is introduced, how to define and model a product's life cycle is outlined, and an overview of available methods and tools for tabulating and compiling associated emissions and resource consumption data in a life cycle inventory (LCI) is provided.
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Exergy: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
Ibrahim Dincer,Marc A. Rosen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental impacts and providing sustainable development.
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Energy efficiency and consumption — the rebound effect — a survey
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of some of the relevant literature from the US offers definitions and identifies sources including direct, secondary, and economy-wide sources and concludes that the range of estimates for the size of the rebound effect is very low to moderate.
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Modeling of end-use energy consumption in the residential sector: A review of modeling techniques
Lukas G. Swan,V. Ismet Ugursal +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an up-to-date review of the various modeling techniques used for modeling residential sector energy consumption, focusing on the strengths, shortcomings and purposes.