Building stock retrofitting is essential to achieve the ambitious sustainability goals of the
building sector due to its high energy consumption rates. The evaluation of the various …

The construction sector accounts for approximately 25% of global CO 2 emissions. In this
paper, we provide a multidimensional assessment of the potential for greenhouse gas …

There is growing concern about the environmental impacts of buildings on climate change.
In this regard, the concept of integrating building technologies and environmental …

The building industry is a sector of great importance to human beings and at the same time
responsible for significant environmental degradations. In the past decades, life cycle …

Buildings constructed today need to be nearly-zero energy/emission buildings (nZEB)
during operation. Amongst strategies to meet today's nZEB performance requirements are …

The life cycle assessment (LCA) has proven to be a reliable methodology for achieving
sustainable development. The number of studies and attempts of integration at the building …

The growing attention to sustainability and life cycle issues by European and international
policies has recently encouraged the adoption, in the construction sector, of environmental …

With the increasing concerns about building environmental impacts, building information
modelling (BIM) has been used to perform different kinds of sustainability analysis. Among …

Buildings produce a large amount of carbon emissions in their life cycle, which intensifies
greenhouse-gas effects and has become a great threat to the survival of humans and other …

Previous studies have suggested that building information modeling (BIM) and life-cycle
assessments (LCAs) could be integrated to quantify and alleviate the environmental effects …