An overview of current status of the available literature on Life Cycle Energy, Life Cycle
Greenhouse gasses, and Conventional Life Cycle Assessment of commercial and …

With the world's uncertain energy outlook, buildings should be designed and constructed to
use lesser fossil fuel-based energy and have lower environmental impacts. In the past …

Buildings are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and contributors to the
climate crisis. To meet climate-change mitigation needs, one must go beyond operational …

Built environment, also referred to as the product of construction industry, has exerted
tremendous impact on the natural environment. Circular economy aims to decouple the …

Buildings use approximately 48% of global energy each year in their construction and
operation as embodied and operating energy. The embodied energy is used directly …

A rapid development of building environmental research from the globe is witnessed in
recent years to deal with the environmental issues, especially in terms of energy …

The construction industry accounts for approximately 40% of the global carbon emissions
and is the largest consumer of materials and energy. Given the Paris Agreement target …

The environmental emissions and energy from construction activity and building materials
contributes significantly to a building's sustainability. Previous research dealing with wood or …

Abstract Based on 2050 Swiss and European Union targets, significant energy performance
improvements will be required for new and renovated buildings. However, the construction …

Low-carbon building design requests an estimation of total embodied carbon as the
environmental performance metric for comparison of different design options in early design …