Critical consideration of buildings' environmental impact assessment towards adoption of circular economy: An analytical review

MU Hossain, ST Ng - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

From demolition to deconstruction of the built environment: A synthesis of the literature

AS Allam, M Nik-Bakht - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Massive amounts of Construction, Renovation, and Demolition (CRD) waste are
produced from the construction sector. Growing needs for the circularity of the construction …

Prefabricated versus conventional construction: Comparing life-cycle impacts of alternative structural materials

V Tavares, N Soares, N Raposo, P Marques… - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Prefabrication can have advantages in terms of materials and time efficiency, but the overall
environmental and cost trade‐offs between the two construction methods are unclear and …

A comparative life cycle assessment of prefabricated and traditional construction–A case of a developing country

J Jayawardana, M Sandanayake, J Jayasinghe… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Prefabricated construction has increasingly captivated the attention of the global
construction sector due to factors such as reduced overall construction times and improved …

Comparative environmental evaluation of recycled aggregates from construction and demolition wastes in Italy

F Colangelo, A Petrillo, I Farina - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns requires urgent actions to combat
climate change and its impacts as established by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) …

Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste: A systematic literature review

JA Mesa, C Fúquene-Retamoso, A Maury-Ramírez - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is considered an innovative tool to analyze environmental
impacts to make decisions aimed at improving the environmental performance of building …

Embodied energy and greenhouse gas emissions analysis of a prefabricated modular house: The “Moby” case study

V Tavares, N Lacerda, F Freire - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Buildings are big consumers of energy and materials, and important producers of waste and
emissions. Prefabrication presents an opportunity to reduce impacts in the building sector; …

Influence of waste materials on buildings' life cycle environmental impacts: Adopting resource recovery principle

MU Hossain, ST Ng - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019 - Elsevier
Buildings are responsible for a significant natural resources diminution and emissions to the
environment. Thus, the building industry has become a global target for reducing …

A comparative study on the life cycle assessment of New Zealand residential buildings

AA Dani, K Roy, R Masood, Z Fang, JBP Lim - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
In New Zealand, housing is typically low density, with light timber framing being the
dominant form of construction with more than 90% of the market. From 2020, as a result of …

[HTML][HTML] Life-cycle carbon emissions (LCCE) of buildings: implications, calculations, and reductions

Z Huang, H Zhou, Z Miao, H Tang, B Lin, W Zhuang - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The life-cycle assessment method, which originates from general products and services, has
gradually come to be applied to investigations of the life-cycle carbon emissions (LCCE) of …