Use of recycled aggregates arising from construction and demolition waste in new construction applications

RV Silva, J De Brito, RK Dhir - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
In the light of the ever-increasing need of circular economy in the construction industry and
of the recent advances in research and development on the use of recycled aggregates …

Taking stock of built environment stock studies: Progress and prospects

M Lanau, G Liu, U Kral, D Wiedenhofer… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Built environment stocks (buildings and infrastructures) play multiple roles in our socio-
economic metabolism: they serve as the backbone of modern societies and human well …

A review of urban energy system models: Approaches, challenges and opportunities

J Keirstead, M Jennings, A Sivakumar - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2012 - Elsevier
Energy use in cities has attracted significant research in recent years. However such a broad
topic inevitably results in number of alternative interpretations of the problem domain and …

Quantifying construction and demolition waste: An analytical review

Z Wu, TW Ann, L Shen, G Liu - Waste management, 2014 - Elsevier
Quantifying construction and demolition (C&D) waste generation is regarded as a
prerequisite for the implementation of successful waste management. In literature, various …

Towards a more circular construction sector: Estimating and spatialising current and future non-structural material replacement flows to maintain urban building stocks

A Stephan, A Athanassiadis - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2018 - Elsevier
Humans are extracting and consuming unprecedented quantities of materials from the
earth's crust. The construction sector and the built environment are major drivers of this …

Quantifying and mapping embodied environmental requirements of urban building stocks

A Stephan, A Athanassiadis - Building and environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Cities and their building stocks result in huge environmental impacts which are critical to
reduce. However, the majority of existing studies focus on operational requirements or on …

A database seed for a community-driven material intensity research platform

N Heeren, T Fishman - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Mapping the evolution of building material stocks in three eastern coastal urban agglomerations of China

H Liang, X Bian, L Dong, W Shen, SS Chen… - Resources, Conservation …, 2023 - Elsevier
The building material stock (MS) plays a vital role in managing and optimizing the urban
built environment. This study proposed a novel approach for mapping the evolution of …

Exploring the influencing factors and decoupling state of residential energy consumption in Shandong

M Zhang, C Bai - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper aims at analyzing the current situation of residential energy consumption in
Shandong, identifying the influence factors governing energy consumption based on the …

Environmental and economic life cycle assessment of recycled aggregates concrete in the United Arab Emirates

MH Alzard, H El-Hassan, T El-Maaddawy - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper studies the potential environmental and economic impact of replacing natural
aggregates (NA) with recycled aggregates (RA) in the production of different sustainable …