Carbon Footprint and Carbon Emission Reduction of Urban Buildings: A Case in Xiamen City, China

Huang, Wei; Li, Fēi; Cui, Shenghui; Huang, Lizhen; Lin, Jianyi

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.146

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“…A building life cycle can be divided into six stages: material extraction and production, transportation, construction, operation, demolition, and recycling [27,41]. The accounting methodology for residential buildings [24,41], and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines were followed, in order to quantify the carbon footprints of urban residential buildings in Xiamen City. Only urban residential buildings were considered in this study.…”

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“…Cities have become hot spots for consuming global energy and generating global carbon emissions [17][18][19], and are therefore playing an increasingly important role in implementing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation policies and actions [17,[20][21][22][23]. Xiamen is one of China's low-carbon pilot cities, dedicated to exploring the way toward a low-carbon transition, and buildings comprise one of the most important sectors needing attention [24].…”

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Carbon Footprints of Urban Residential Buildings: A Household Survey-Based Approach

Yan

Cui

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With China's rapid urbanization process, massive and extensive construction materials are aggregated as stock in urban areas. Understanding the carbon footprints of residential buildings is crucial for achieving the goal of low-carbon cities. In this study, to reveal the emission characteristics of residential buildings regarding carbon footprint, stratified random sampling was developed, and a face-to-face questionnaire was conducted, to obtain critical information on residential buildings and the socioeconomic status of 1092 families from 46 communities in Xiamen City, China. The community buildings' structures were identified, and carbon emissions from the residential buildings were quantified based on analysis of the entire building life cycle. The building life cycle can be divided into six stages: extraction and production; transportation; construction; operation; demolition; and recycling. The household carbon footprints ranged from 0.37 tCO 2 /year to 22.45 tCO 2 /year; the per capita carbon footprints ranged from 0.19 tCO 2 /year to 11.23 tCO 2 /year. Overall, for the 46 surveyed communities, the average household and per capita carbon footprints were 4.11 tCO 2 /year and 1.4 tCO 2 /year, respectively. The total carbon footprints of urban residential buildings were 4.86 MtCO 2 /year. Analysis of the extraction and production stage revealed that steel recycling could avoid almost 0.05 MtCO 2 /year. No significant correlations were found between energy use awareness and energy use. The findings can be used by Chinese energy policymakers to understand the views of various energy users, and to re-attune the efforts against these opinions and interests. However, we consider this study a start and not an end to the importance of gauging opinions on energy security from the population of energy users. Nonetheless, awareness campaigns through print and electronic media could be another tool for life cycle emissions reduction in building sector.

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Carbon Footprints of Urban Residential Buildings: A Household Survey-Based Approach

Yan

Cui

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“…2-Study the robustness and sensitivity of the different multi-criteria decision making Several efforts were done in the field of evaluation of environmental emissions and estimation. Huang et al (2017) introduced a calculation methodology for the carbon footprint of urban buildings in Xiamen city in China. They concluded that the energy use phase and material production phase are responsible for 45% and 40% of the carbon footprint, respectively.…”

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On the use of multi-criteria decision making methods for minimizing environmental emissions in construction projects

Marzouk¹,

Abdelakder²

2019

10.5267/j.dsl

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There are huge amounts of emissions associated with construction industry during its different stages from cradle till building demolition. This study presents a methodology that integrates multi-objective optimization and multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in order to enable construction decision-makers to select the most sustainable construction alternatives. Four objectives functions are investigated, which are: construction time, lifecycle cost, environmental impact and primary energy in order to construct the Pareto front. A novel hybrid MCDM is designed based on seven multi-criteria decision making techniques to select the best solution among the set of the Pareto optimal solutions. Sensitivity analysis is performed in order to determine the most sensitive attribute and construction stages that influence environmental emissions. The analysis illustrates that WSM, COPRAS and TOPSIS provided the best rankings of the alternatives, primary energy is the most sensitive attribute for different MCDM methods. Moreover, PROMETHEE II is the most robust MCDM method..

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“…Energy-efficient buildings are also one of the best ways to reduce CO 2 emissions (Huang et al , 2017). The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that with mathematical assumptions for solving relevant equations representing the relationships between energy consumption and the building structure, the amount of energy consumption in a residential building can be estimated with extrapolation of a case study of an apartment building in Kosovo.…”

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Measuring energy heating performance of apartment buildings in Kosovo built after 2003

Hoxha

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to quantify the energy heating performance of apartment buildings in Kosovo built after 2003 and compare it against the energy heating performance of buildings in member states of EU and selected European countries. Design/methodology/approach This paper takes a case study approach focussed on the assessment of the heating energy performance of the building. This approach facilitated a detailed calculation of the selected materials’ energy performance used in a representative building structure in Kosovo comparing with passive buildings standard and energy heating performance of buildings in member states of EU and selected European countries. Findings Results of quantitative research find that the energy heating performance of apartment buildings in Kosovo built after 2003 is far higher than that of passive buildings standard and is better than the average annual energy heating performance of apartment buildings in member states of the EU and selected European countries. Research limitations/implications The research provides new knowledge regarding energy heating performance in new residential buildings in Kosovo and compares the findings with earlier research and energy consumption in other selected European countries. The research provides great benefits for researchers and practitioners working in the field of energy management as it compares the energy performance of residential buildings across Europe. Originality/value This paper provides a perspective on investigating the energy performance of a building structure of a residential apartment building in Prishtina, Kosovo. By unveiling the level of energy consumption of a residential apartment building in Kosovo representative of the new construction period can help the facility managers to acknowledge the standards they must achieve to refurbish the old building stock to achieve at least the same standard as the buildings in the new construction period.

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Carbon Footprint and Carbon Emission Reduction of Urban Buildings: A Case in Xiamen City, China

Cited by 58 publications

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Carbon Footprints of Urban Residential Buildings: A Household Survey-Based Approach

Carbon Footprints of Urban Residential Buildings: A Household Survey-Based Approach

On the use of multi-criteria decision making methods for minimizing environmental emissions in construction projects

Measuring energy heating performance of apartment buildings in Kosovo built after 2003

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