As one quarter of global energy use serves the production of materials, the more efficient
use of these materials presents a significant opportunity for the mitigation of greenhouse gas …

Attempts to track material flows and the calculation of efficiency for material systems go hand
in hand. Questions of where materials come from, where materials go to, and how much …

The building sector plays a key role in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality while
understanding the carbon emission trend of building stock at the city-level is challenging …

In China's building sector, annual embodied carbon emissions (EC) account for a larger
proportion than operational emissions, unlike in developed economies. Investigating future …

Cement plays a dual role in the global carbon cycle like a sponge: its massive production
contributes significantly to present-day global anthropogenic CO2 emissions, yet its …

China's energy consumption in the building sector (BEC) is not counted as a separate type
of energy consumption, but divided and mixed in other sectors in China's statistical system …

Residential buildings and service sector buildings have an important contribution to climate
change, directly via energy use in these buildings and indirectly through construction …

The data record contains Material Intensity data for buildings (MI). MI coefficients are often
used for different types of analysis of socio-economic systems and in particular for …

Aggregates are the most extracted material resources by weight worldwide. As an important
resource for buildings and infrastructure, aggregates, however, are now facing shortages …

Humanity is using mineral resources at an unprecedented level and demand will continue to
grow over the next few decades before stabilizing by the end of the century, due to the …