Towards Zero: A Review on Strategies in Achieving Net-Zero-Energy and Net-Zero-Carbon Buildings

HL Lou, SH Hsieh - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
The establishment of net-zero-energy and net-zero-carbon buildings can offer significant
opportunities to reduce environmental impact in the building sector. Several successful net …

Integrating life cycle assessment into the building design process-a review

F Prideaux, K Allacker, RH Crawford… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The environmental effects associated with buildings are significant, and include
considerable contributions towards global greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, and …

[HTML][HTML] Limitations of machine-interpretability of digital EPDs used for a BIM-based sustainability assessment of construction assets

A Aragón, MG Alberti - Journal of Building Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Construction assets are complex systems that require the analysis of a huge amount of data
from materials and processes in order to perform a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) …

Assessing uncertainty in building material emissions using scenario-aware Monte Carlo simulation

AB Thaneya, AP Gursel, S Kane… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Global greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment remain high, driving innovative
approaches to develop and adopt building materials that can mitigate some of those …

Analysis of Sectoral Environmental Product Declarations as a Data Source for Life Cycle Assessment

MS Otero, T Garnica, S Montilla, M Conde, JA Tenorio - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
The life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology is becoming increasingly prevalent in the
quantification of the environmental status in the building sector following new legislative …

Background Data in the Context of Pinus sylvestris, L. Glued Laminated Timber Manufacturing in Spain

T Garnica, S Montilla, S Otero, JA Tenorio, M Conde - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The construction sector is achieving its goal of decarbonization. Bioproducts are known to
reduce the environmental footprint of the building process, but it is necessary that we …

EPD as LCA Quality Input Data. A Critical Analysis

MS Otero, T Garnica, S Montilla, M Conde, JA Tenorio - 2023 - preprints.org
Abstract Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is increasingly prevalent in the
quantification of environmental status in the building sector, following new legislative …