Quantification process of carbon emissions in the construction industry

KE Lai, NA Rahiman, N Othman, KN Ali, YW Lim… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change has raised awareness on the need to achieve net-zero carbon emissions
and improve the sustainability of buildings. To reduce the complexity of quantifying carbon …

A critical review of African green building research

FV Mushi, H Nguluma, J Kihila - Building Research & Information, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A key component of green building diffusion is green building research.
Globally, sustainable and green building research is advancing. However, there exists …

Optimal BIM and LCA integration approach for embodied environmental impact assessment

VWY Tam, Y Zhou, L Shen, KN Le - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
It has been widely acknowledged that applications of building information modeling (BIM)
can facilitate the effectiveness of embodied environmental impact assessment of buildings …

Barriers to BIM-based life cycle sustainability assessment for buildings: An interpretive structural modelling approach

A Onososen, I Musonda - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the emergence of Building Information Modelling (BIM) as central to construction
design, planning, execution and maintenance, integration into the entire infrastructure …

Trade-offs between accuracy and efficiency in BIM-LCA integration

B Zheng, M Hussain, Y Yang, APC Chan… - Engineering …, 2025 - emerald.com
Purpose In the last decades, various building information modeling–life cycle assessment
(BIM-LCA) integration approaches have been developed to assess the environmental …

Environmental and economic criteria in early phases of building design through Building Information Modeling: A workflow exploration in developing countries

I Berges-Alvarez, CM Sanguinetti, S Giraldi… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Professionals involved in the early design stages, usually have difficulties understanding the
use of Life Cycle Assessment tools. This entails major drawbacks, as it is precisely in these …

The evolution and future directions of green buildings research: a scientometric analysis

C Wang, Y Che, M Xia, C Lin, Y Chen, X Li, H Chen… - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
Economic development and urbanization naturally give rise to expanding demand for new
buildings, whose construction and operation inevitably lead to significant increases in …

Drivers of BIM-based life cycle sustainability assessment of buildings: An interpretive structural modelling approach

A Onososen, I Musonda, MM Tjebane - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Building Information Modelling (BIM) for life cycle sustainability assessment is an emerging
development considered valuable given its importance in enhancing the environmentally …

BIM-based embodied carbon evaluation during building early-design stage: A systematic literature review

B Huang, H Zhang, H Ullah, Y Lv - Environmental Impact Assessment …, 2025 - Elsevier
Building environmental impact has garnered increased attention, particularly in shifting
focus from operational carbon (OC) to the often-overlooked embodied carbon (EC) …

Analysis of the underlying factors affecting BIM-LCA integration in the Ghanaian construction industry: a factor analysis approach

AK Danso, DJ Edwards, EK Adjei, T Adjei-Kumi… - Construction …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The integration of building information modelling (BIM) and life cycle assessment
(LCA) is an effective means of achieving sustainability in the built environment. However …