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Urban Equilibrium for sustainable cities and the contribution of timber buildings to balance urban carbon emissions: A New Zealand case study
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In this article, the whole-of-life role of timber in future urban developments as a contributor to balance urban carbon emissions is considered using a new concept of Urban Equilibrium, defined as the situation where buildings in an urban environment act as a balancing agent for the greenhouse gas emissions of the urban area; therefore the buildings act like carbon pools.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2017-02-01. It has received 34 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban density & Urban metabolism.read more
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Exploring knowledge management perspectives in smart city research: A review and future research agenda
TL;DR: This article reviews the existing smart city literature and integrates knowledge management perspectives to provide an overview of future research directions and proposes a series of knowledge-driven policy recommendations to contribute towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Assessing the life cycle CO2 emissions of reinforced concrete structures: Four cases from China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the CO2 emissions of reinforced concrete structures in China with the aim of developing proposals for energy-saving emission reductions, and found that steel contributes 40% to global warming and 40%-80% of the total environmental emissions during the construction phase of the buildings analyzed.
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Temporal and spatial differences in carbon emissions in the Pearl River Delta based on multi-resolution emission inventory modeling
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the spatial and temporal characteristics of carbon emissions from different sources in the urban system, based on multi-resolution emission inventory for China (MEIC) modeling data, and the corresponding spatiotemporal distributions and main influencing mechanisms were elucidated.
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Improving thermal response of lightweight timber building envelopes during cooling season in three European locations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated various examples of enhanced lightweight constructions from the thermal response point of view and compared with the performance of a conventional thermally insulated high mass wall.
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Manufactured structural timber building materials and their durability
TL;DR: In this paper, the decay resistance of softwood Engineered Wood Products such as CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) and LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) for multi-story buildings is evaluated in an accelerated trial.
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Advancing Sustainable Urban Transformation
TL;DR: In this article, a special volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production explores sustainable urban transformation focusing on structural transformation processes that can effectively direct urban development towards ambitious sustainability goals, including governance and planning, innovation and competitiveness, lifestyle and consumption, resource management and climate mitigation and adaptation, transport and accessibility, buildings, and spatial environment and public space.
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Life cycle primary energy use and carbon emission of an eight-storey wood-framed apartment building
TL;DR: In this paper, the life cycle primary energy use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission of an eight-storey wood-framed apartment building were analyzed, including acquisition and processing of materials, on-site construction, building operation, demolition and materials disposal.
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Carbon Dioxide Balance of Wood Substitution: Comparing Concrete- and Wood-Framed Buildings
TL;DR: In this paper, a method is suggested to compare the net carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from the construction of concrete-and wood-framed buildings, compared with functionally equivalent buildings constructed with concrete frames.
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Life cycle impacts of forest management and wood utilization on carbon mitigation: knowns and unknowns
TL;DR: In this article, a review on research on life cycle carbon accounting examines the complexities in accounting for carbon emissions given the many different ways that wood is used and the impacts of how best to use wood from our forests.
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Wood-based building materials and atmospheric carbon emissions
Andrew H. Buchanan,S.Bry Levine +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the global impact of wood as a building material by considering emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere was investigated, and it was shown that wood buildings require much lower process energy and result in lower carbon emissions than buildings of other materials such as brick, aluminium, steel and concrete.