Bamboo as a building material alternative for Western Europe? A study of the environmental performance, costs and bottlenecks of the use of bamboo (products) in Western Europe

Lugt, P. van der; Dobbelsteen, Andy van den; Abrahams, Rachel

doi:10.1163/156915903322555513

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“…Much previous LCA research on building has focused on assessing energy consumption and environmental emissions in the whole life cycle of two kinds of buildings: residential building (Asif et al 2007;Adalberth et al 2001;Blengini and Di Carlo 2010) and official building (Scheuer et al 2003;Junnila 2004;Li 2006a;Kofoworola and Gheewala 2008). Other research is related with building materials, such as concrete (Borjesson and Gustavsson 2000;Lenzen and Treloar 2002;Gustavsson and Sathre 2006;Peyroteo et al 2007), steel (Peyroteo et al 2007), wood (Borjesson and Gustavsson 2000;Lenzen and Treloar 2002;Petersen and Solberg 2005;Gustavsson and Sathre 2006), bamboo (Van der Lugt et al 2003), ceramic (Nicoletti et al 2002) and marble tiles (Van der Lugt et al 2003), or analyzed environmental impacts in the subsystems of building, such as electrical and thermal energy system (Osman and Ries 2007), wood floor system (Nebel et al 2006), heating, and air conditioning system (Prek 2004;Shah et al 2008). Few LCAs of buildings specialized in evaluating GHG emission or compared complete building materials.…”

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Life cycle energy consumption and CO2 emission of an office building in China

Yuan

Zhang

et al. 2011

Int J Life Cycle Assess

158

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Purpose Building is one of the main factors of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emission from building is urgent for environmental protection and sustainable development. The objective of this study is to develop a life cycle assessment (LCA) model for an office building in China to assess its energy consumption and CO 2 emission, determine the whole life cycle phases, and the significant environmental aspects that contribute most to the impact. Methods A process-based LCA has been used to identify and quantify the energy consumption and CO 2 emission of the office building. The LCA is conducted in accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency, The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and the International Organization for Standardization standards for life cycle assessments. The entire life cycle including building materials production, construction, operation, and demolition of the building is studied. A service life of 50 years is assumed and the major construction materials such as concrete, cement, brick, steel, timber, glass, and plastic are selected for the building. Results and discussionThe results show that building operation uses the largest share of energy and contributes most to CO 2 emission. The cooling and heating system in building operation strongly influence the energy consumption and CO 2 emission of the building. In addition, the large quantity use of concrete and steel in materials production, and the treatment of end-of-life building materials are also the important aspects impacting the environmental performance of the building. Based on the results of the study, some environmental improvements aiming at reducing energy consumption and CO 2 emission throughout the life cycle of the building are provided.Conclusions This study provides an LCA of the energy consumption and CO 2 emission of a typical office building in China. It determines the whole life cycle phases that contribute most to the impact and defines the significant environmental aspects of the building. This study also shows the importance of using a life cycle perspective when evaluating energy consumption and CO 2 emission of building and also lays the groundwork for LCA studying of other office buildings in China.

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Life cycle energy consumption and CO2 emission of an office building in China

Yuan

Zhang

et al. 2011

Int J Life Cycle Assess

158

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“…In addition to literature reviews, mass and energy balance data for bioethanol production were obtained from the AspenPlus™ model. The inventory data of bamboo plantation and harvesting (Table 3) are derived from van der Lugt et al (2003) 28 and the assumptions about transportation are listed in Table 4. The life time of bamboo is 20 years with the culms productivity of 48 dry ton/ha per year.…”

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An economic and environmental evaluation for bamboo-derived bioethanol

2014

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The potential to obtain bioethanol from bamboo using three different pretreatment technologies (liquid hot water (LHW), dilute acid (DA) and soaking in aqueous ammonia (SAA)) is assessed via techno-economic and environmental analyses. The minimum ethanol selling price (MESP) is used to compare the economic potential of the pretreatment processes, and these are 0.554, 0.484 and 1.014 $ per litre for DA, LHW and SAA pretreatments, respectively. The bioethanol pump price under current and future policy scenarios in China is compared with petrol and reveals that bioethanol produced via DA and LHW pretreatments could be economically competitive even without government support. From an environmental perspective, a life cycle assessment approach is used to evaluate bamboo-derived bioethanol for full environmental impact categories, and this is compared with petrol on a ’well-to-wheel’ basis. It was found that all three bioethanol pathways would be environmentally better than petrol with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduced by 45-93%. A comparison of bamboo-based bioethanol with other cellulosic feedstocks not only suggests that bamboo could be a viable and competitive feedstock for bioethanol production, but also demonstrates that amongst the pretreatment technologies tested, LHW has the most potential for achieving favourable economic and environmental outcomes

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“…Bamboo is a kind of fast growing material with renewable, natural, and biodegradable properties (Bonilla et al, 2010), which makes it an exceptional economic resource for wide use. Moreover, studies indicated that the environmental performance of bamboo was favorable compared to timber in energy consumption and environmental costs (Van der Lugt et al, 2003).…”

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Mechanical behavior of laminated bamboo lumber dowel-type connection

Zhou

2019

Advances in Structural Engineering

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Bamboo is a kind of green material with high specific strength, while the hollow tubular structure makes it rather hard to be utilized in structure. Glue and hot-pressing processes make laminated bamboo lumber rectangular cross section and with high strength properties. The dowel-type connection can be used in I-joist instead of the costly adhesive, while the behaviors of which are extremely complicated. European yield model is confirmed to be an effective method to estimate loading capacity of connection and is adopted by various standard and design codes. This article focused on a kind of connection innovatively with laminated bamboo lumber dowel. The embedment tests were carried out to study the embedment strength of laminated bamboo lumber members. Connection tests under lateral load were conducted to investigate the performance and loading capacity. Finally, theoretical results determined by design rules in current codes were compared with experimental results

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Bamboo as a building material alternative for Western Europe? A study of the environmental performance, costs and bottlenecks of the use of bamboo (products) in Western Europe

Cited by 36 publications

References 5 publications

Life cycle energy consumption and CO2 emission of an office building in China

Life cycle energy consumption and CO2 emission of an office building in China

An economic and environmental evaluation for bamboo-derived bioethanol

Mechanical behavior of laminated bamboo lumber dowel-type connection

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