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Life cycle energy analysis of buildings: An overview
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In this article, a critical review of the life cycle energy analyses of buildings resulting from 73 cases across 13 countries is presented, including both residential and office buildings, and it is observed that low energy buildings perform better than self-sufficient (zero operating energy) buildings in the life-cycle context.About:
This article is published in Energy and Buildings.The article was published on 2010-10-01. It has received 1153 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Embodied energy & Life-cycle assessment.read more
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle energy analysis (LCEA) of buildings and the building sector: A review
TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes and organizes the literature on life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle energy analysis (LCEA), and life cycle cost analysis for environmental evaluation of buildings and building related industry and sector (including construction products, construction systems, buildings, and civil engineering constructions).
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Emerging approaches, challenges and opportunities in life cycle assessment
TL;DR: Life Cycle Assessment constitutes a viable screening tool that can pinpoint environmental hotspots in complex value chains, but it is cautioned that completeness in scope comes at the price of simplifications and uncertainties.
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Review of passive PCM latent heat thermal energy storage systems towards buildings’ energy efficiency
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how and where phase change materials (PCMs) are used in passive latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) systems, and present an overview of how these construction solutions are related to building's energy performance.
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Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future
TL;DR: The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) as mentioned in this paper brings together over 300 international researchers to provide an independent, scientifically based, integrated and policy-relevant analysis of current and emerging energy issues and options.
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The wood from the trees: The use of timber in construction
Michael H. Ramage,H. C. Burridge,Marta Busse-Wicher,George Fereday,Thomas Reynolds,Darshil U. Shah,Guanglu Wu,Li Yu,Patrick Hugh Fleming,Danielle Densley-Tingley,Julian M. Allwood,Paul Dupree,Paul Linden,Oren A. Scherman +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider a holistic picture ranging in scale from the science of the cell wall to the engineering and global policies that could maximise forestry and timber construction as a boon to both people and the planet.
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Energy use in the life cycle of conventional and low-energy buildings: A review article
Igor Sartori,Anne Grete Hestnes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a literature survey on buildings' life cycle energy use was performed, resulting in a total of 60 cases from nine countries, including both residential and non-residential units.
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A low energy building in a life cycle - its embodied energy, energy need for operation and recycling potential
TL;DR: In this paper, the recycling potential of the most energy efficient apartment housing in Sweden (45 kWh/m(2) ) was analyzed and it was shown that the recycling could account for between 35% and 40% of the embodied energy.
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Embodied energy of common and alternative building materials and technologies
TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of energy in different types of masonry has been made and compared with the energy of conventional reinforced concrete (RC) slab roof, and total embodied energy of a multi-storeyed building, a load bearing brickwork building and a soil-cement block building using alternative building materials has been compared.
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Life-cycle energy use in office buildings
Raymond J. Cole,Paul C. Kernan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the total life-cycle energy use in a 4620 m2 (50,000 ft2) three-storey, generic office building for alternative wood, steel and concrete structural systems, with and without underground parking.
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Life cycle assessment: A case study of a dwelling home in Scotland
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided a life cycle assessment (LCA) of a 3-bed room semi-detached house in Scotland and found that concrete, timber and ceramic tiles are the three major energy expensive materials involved.
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